Assets Decline for China's Top 20 Money Managers China’s stock market has been notoriously volatile, falling by more than two thirds from its October 2007 peak before recovering somewhat this year. The stock market’s wild swings certainly left their mark on China’s fund management industry. The China 20, Institutional Investor’s fifth annual exclusive ranking of the country’s largest money man
How the Ranking Was Compiled Institutional Investor’s annual ranking identifies China’s top 20 fund managers by assets. New York–based Associate Editor WeiQing Lu, with the assistance of Researcher Carol To in Hong Kong, compiled the ranking from a variety of sources, including questionnaires filled out by the institutions themselves. II refined this data through follow-up faxes, e-mails and telephone calls. When official data were unavailable, II obtained figures from Web sites and other public sources. All figures are as of December 31, 2008, converted to dollars using year-end 2008 exchange rates.