Exclusive: Rebound from the bottom! 14 major wealth management companies' February scale "bounced back" by over 700 billion yuan

People’s Financial News, March 12 — After a brief period in January when the total scale of ongoing investments was sluggish, bank wealth management products rebounded in February. According to exclusive data compiled from trusted industry sources by Securities Times, in February this year, 14 wealth management companies with management scales exceeding 1 trillion yuan (including 6 state-owned bank wealth management firms and 8 joint-stock bank wealth management firms) saw a month-on-month increase of about 700 billion yuan, though still down about 110 billion yuan from the end of last year. In 2026, when traditional fixed coupon strategies are unlikely to generate ideal returns, the yields of fixed-income products continue to decline. Wealth management products with higher yield flexibility, such as those with embedded options, are becoming key tools for wealth management firms to stabilize scale and improve efficiency. For example, in February, as many as 32 hybrid wealth management products with high embedded option ratios were issued, a significant increase from 15 in January and 18 throughout February last year, reaching a record high for monthly sales.