Liability for losses of investors on asset management products

By Yao Xiaomin and Guo Xiaohan, Lantai Partners
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Formulation of the Guiding Opinions on Regulating Asset Management Businesses of Financial Institutions (new asset management regulations) was a hallmark event of the financial industry in 2018. A highlight of the new regulations is that implicit guarantee is prohibited and asset management should return to its basics.

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Yao Xiaomin
Lantai Partners
Partner

In other words, asset management will be provided in the principle of due diligence of sellers and caveat emptor. This means that, in the event of losses on the asset management product, a dispute between the investor and asset manager will centre on how to determine causes to the losses and how to compensate for the losses.

At the level of legal relationship, investors and asset managers are in the trust legal relationship. The asset manager’s, or the trustee’s, statutory obligations of performance of duties and due diligence are specified in the Trust Law, the Contract Law, the Law on Securities Investment Funds, and applicable normative documents formulated by the financial regulator.

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Yao Xiaomin is a partner and Guo Xiaohan is an associate at Lantai Partners

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