Long-term capital inflow pace accelerates, dividend-themed ETF popular varieties configuration opportunities attract attention

Since the beginning of the year, as global macro uncertainties continue to increase, the demand for defensive high-dividend assets has risen. At the same time, rising oil prices resonate with energy security strategies, leading to a reassessment of the value of physical assets such as coal, oil, and petrochemicals. This may make traditional dividend sectors, with their strong profit certainty, one of the more benefited directions under the current defensive logic.

From the funding perspective, according to data from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, insurance funds are continuously increasing their allocation to equity assets. By the end of 2025, the balance of insurance funds invested in stocks and funds is expected to grow by 38.9% compared to the end of 2024, reaching the highest level since the second quarter of 2022 when relevant data was first disclosed. This not only brings more incremental capital to the market but also is expected to inject new momentum for the recovery of high-dividend assets with stable ROE and high dividend payout levels.

Under multiple catalysts, the attention to dividend assets continues to rise, driving some related thematic ETFs to become ideal core holdings for market funds. Among them, Huatai-PineBridge’s “Dividend Family” includes two flagship dividend-themed ETFs—Huatai-PineBridge Low Volatility Dividend ETF (512890), Huatai-PineBridge Dividend ETF (510880), and the Huatai-PineBridge State-Owned Enterprise Dividend ETF, which has a higher proportion of “HALO assets” (561580). The enthusiasm for these funds has significantly increased, with the past week attracting a combined total of 5.02 billion yuan, 4.10 billion yuan, and 1.06 billion yuan in new investments, ranking among the top in their categories.

Since the beginning of this year, the Huatai-PineBridge Low Volatility Dividend ETF (512890) and the Huatai-PineBridge State-Owned Enterprise Dividend ETF (561580) have become the only dividend-themed ETFs in the market with net inflows exceeding 3 billion yuan and 30 billion yuan, respectively, with net inflows of 37.75 billion yuan and 3.85 billion yuan.

Supported by this relatively strong “money-absorbing” effect, as of March 19, 2026, the five ETFs in Huatai-PineBridge’s “Dividend Family” series have become part of a dividend strategy investment ecosystem with a total scale of 52.968 billion yuan, accounting for over a quarter of the total market size of dividend-themed ETFs, and have collectively generated 9.879 billion yuan in fund profits for investors.

Among them, the Huatai-PineBridge Dividend ETF (510880) is the first dividend-themed index fund in A-shares, with a total dividend payout of 5.18 billion yuan over 19 years since its inception. The Huatai-PineBridge Low Volatility Dividend ETF (512890) is the first and currently the only dividend low-volatility ETF in the market with assets exceeding 30 billion yuan. The Huatai-PineBridge State-Owned Enterprise Dividend ETF (561580) is the first “SOE + Dividend” dual-theme ETF in A-shares. The Hong Kong Stock Connect Dividend ETF (513530) and the Hong Kong Stock Connect Low Volatility Dividend ETF (520890) focus on high-dividend assets in Hong Kong stocks; the former uses a QDII model and has certain advantages in Hong Kong dividend tax, while the latter incorporates a low-volatility factor, making its defensive properties more prominent in the volatile Hong Kong market.

As Huatai-PineBridge’s “Dividend Family” becomes a popular choice for investors to allocate dividend assets, the Huatai-PineBridge Low Volatility Dividend ETF (512890) and its off-market connection fund, Huatai-PineBridge Low Volatility Dividend ETF Connection Y (022951), are also favored by individual pension investors. By the end of 2025, the fund’s scale reached 448 million yuan, making it the first index fund Y-share to surpass 400 million yuan, and it has ranked among the top in all “Index Y” funds for five consecutive quarters (from 2024/12/31 to 2025/12/31), with an increase of 886.43% compared to the end of 2024. It is currently the only product with over 20,000 holders among all Index Y shares.

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