The number of effective subscribers is approaching 280,000 households, and this index fund has set two records in a row.

The voice of "passive surpassing active" has not yet faded, and index funds have once again become a focus of the market. According to an announcement from a large and medium-sized public fund in Shanghai on May 21, its artificial intelligence index fund on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board was established on May 20, with a fundraising scale of 1.761 billion yuan and a total of 279,800 subscriptions. According to the announcement, the senior management, fund investment and research department heads, and fund managers of this public fund do not hold shares in the fund. This means that the fund's raised funds mainly come from external subscriptions. According to Wind statistics, the 279,800 subscriptions for this Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board artificial intelligence index fund set two historical records. First, this is the highest number of subscriptions for a regular index fund since its launch in 2003. The WanJia Shanghai 180 Index Fund, established in March 2003, was the first domestic regular index fund with a fundraising scale of nearly 2 billion yuan and 50,600 subscriptions. Secondly, this is the record number of subscriptions for new index funds in nearly 5 years from July 2021 to present, and it is another epitome of the "passivization" trend in this round of equity fund development since 2024.