With the intensive issuance and listing of the CSI A500ETF, the fund company's self-purchase behavior has once again become a focus of market attention. According to data from hithink royalflush information network iFinD, as of October 16, the scale of fund self-purchase this year has reached 3.902 billion yuan. Among them, the scale of self-purchase of stock funds is 1.977 billion yuan, bond funds is 0.444 billion yuan, hybrid funds is 0.793 billion yuan, qdii funds is 0.14 billion yuan, and FOF funds is 0.42 billion yuan. Yang Delong, chief economist of Qianhai Kaiyuan Fund, pointed out that fund companies conduct self-purchases in order to bind company interests with fund holders through self-purchase, thereby promoting the increase in fund sales scale. In addition, through self-purchase, fund companies can also allow their own funds to share in the investment returns of the funds. (Securities Times)