"Her Power" | Guoshou Anbao Fund's Song Yilu's Investment Perspective

As the financial investment industry increasingly emphasizes long-term value and user experience, women’s perspectives are becoming a unique and striking highlight within the public fund industry, especially as investors demand higher standards for asset security and investment companionship.

On International Women’s Day, a day dedicated to women, we focus on China Life’s only public fund management company, Guoshou Anbao Fund. Fund manager Song Yilu, with her feminine sensitivity, patience, and steadiness, integrates rigorous risk control into the core of investment. Building on the company’s professional foundation, she strives to find the perfect balance between safety and warmth in financial services, using her unique female strength to safeguard investors’ wealth journey.

Guoshou Anbao’s flagship funds—Guoshou Anbao Strong Nation Smart Manufacturing Flexible Allocation Hybrid, Guoshou Anbao Huaxing Flexible Allocation Hybrid, and Guoshou Anbao Stable Life Hybrid—are managed by Song Yilu.

As a benchmark in insurance-related public funds, Guoshou Anbao has achieved leapfrog development after twelve years of dedicated effort, becoming an important part of China Life Group’s investment sector. By the end of 2025, the company’s ten-year excess return on equity assets ranked sixth in the industry, and its fixed income assets also ranked sixth, making it the only public fund manager in the market to rank in the top ten for both asset classes over ten years (source: Guotai Haitong Fund Quarterly Report, January 3, 2026, as of December 31, 2025). It also received the 22nd China Fund Industry Golden Bull Award for “Fixed Income Investment Golden Bull Fund Company.” Such a professional and steady platform has allowed female fund managers like Song Yilu to fully leverage their qualities, continuously practicing the balance of safety and warmth in investment and service.

With 12 years of experience in securities and four years in investment, Song Yilu joined Guoshou Anbao Fund in 2018. She has steadily grown from a researcher and assistant fund manager to an independent fund manager, currently managing three funds: Guoshou Anbao Strong Nation Smart Manufacturing Flexible Allocation Hybrid, Guoshou Anbao Huaxing Flexible Allocation Hybrid, and Guoshou Anbao Stable Life Hybrid. Her innate meticulousness and prudence make risk control her fundamental investment principle, forming the core of her investment framework. Thanks to her research background, she combines insights from technology, cyclical industries, and consumer sectors, along with sharp financial data analysis, enabling her to spot overlooked details—such as subtle changes in financial reports, management behaviors, industry chain adjustments, and real-time feedback from channels—becoming key to early risk detection and market turning points.

In portfolio construction, she advocates for balanced industry allocation, avoiding concentrated bets on a single sector. Through top-down industry comparisons and bottom-up stock selection, she chooses assets with better risk-return profiles, favoring undervalued and early opportunities, aiming for long-term, steady, and sustainable excess returns. This investment style aligns closely with Guoshou Anbao’s philosophy of “professionalism, transparency, and steadiness,” helping to build a “safety barrier” for investors.

For Song Yilu, the unique advantages of women in research and investment go beyond this. Her communication and empathy skills enable her to capture more non-quantifiable information during research, making her analysis more comprehensive. Her natural patience and long-term perspective keep her away from short-term gambles, allowing her to make investment decisions from a long-term view.

In market fluctuations, she understands investors’ anxiety and confusion, always prioritizing their feelings. When market pressure is high, she revisits the fundamentals, reviews all companies in her portfolio, and confirms whether her investment logic has changed, maintaining her rationality and building confidence among investors. She also maintains a regular lifestyle through exercise, reading, and family communication to stay balanced amid market changes. During market cycles, she keeps risk control at the forefront, using low drawdowns to reassure investors that they can “hold on without panic.” She emphasizes transparent communication, promptly explaining her investment logic and portfolio strategies during extreme market conditions, using professional analysis to ease investors’ anxiety.

She believes that the confidence and conviction of fund managers provide the strongest sense of security for investors amid volatility. This sense of security is the most precious warmth in financial services.

In today’s evolving financial markets, with emerging tools constantly appearing, Song Yilu balances tool efficiency with investment fundamentals through a rational female perspective. Regarding hot trends like AI and quantitative trading, she views tools objectively—using AI to improve meeting notes, data analysis, and research efficiency—while maintaining face-to-face corporate research. Deep engagement with companies helps her understand industry changes and management trends, combining rational data with intuitive insights to inform her investment decisions. She recognizes that while quantitative trading can amplify intraday volatility, it is merely a trading behavior that does not alter a company’s intrinsic value. Only by sticking to fundamentals, extending investment horizons, and maintaining discipline can one consistently identify the main investment themes amid market changes. This approach not only safeguards assets but also helps investors achieve stable long-term returns, making warmth and companionship truly valuable.

Guoshou Anbao’s female research and investment team is redefining the meaning of financial investment services with diverse perspectives and professional capabilities. Leveraging the company’s strong stock and bond platform, they break the stereotype that “financial investment is a male domain,” proving that success in investing is never about gender but about having a reverence for the market, risk control ability, long-term vision, and empathy. Through her, we see the unique value that women’s perspectives bring to finance: they can be rigorous and professional, safeguarding assets with solid research and strict risk management; they can also be gentle and warm, providing investors with security through sincere communication and steadfast companionship.

Their moment is the moment when women’s strength shines in the financial arena, and also when Guoshou Anbao Fund remains true to its original mission of “creating value for investors,” returning financial services to their human-centered essence. As women’s perspectives become an integral part of the financial market and the pursuit of safety and warmth becomes the core goal of wealth management, Guoshou Anbao’s female fund managers continue to advance steadily, using their unique strength to protect investors’ assets. They ensure that financial investment moves more steadily, further, and with greater warmth.