Huarong International Financial Holdings Limited provided group earnings guidance for the six months ended 30 June 2016. The group is expected to record a significant increase in profit attributable to owners of the company for the relevant period, which would represent not less than 140% increase when comparing to a profit of approximately HKD 75.2 million attributable to the owners of the company for the six months ended 31 October 2015. Such significant increase in profit was mainly due to increase in operating profit from asset management and direct investment segment due to the expansion of direct investment business and profit arising from fair value change of financial assets at fair value through profit or loss; securities segment due to the growth of the fee income and interest income from the expansion of the margin loans portfolio; and corporate finance segment due to the increase in financial advisory services provided during the relevant period.