(Hong Kong, 20 September 2021) – Realord Group Holdings Limited ("Realord Group" or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”, stock code: 1196) is pleased to announce that the Group was included as a constituent of the FTSE Russell Global Equity Index Series (“FTSE GEIS”), following FTSE's most recent semi-annual review. The inclusions in the FTSE Global Small Cap Index, FTSE Global All-Cap Index (LMS) and FTSE Global Total-Cap Index (LMSµ) became effective after the close of business on September 17, 2021.
FTSE Russell is a global leader that provides index, analytics, and data solutions for investors worldwide. The FTSE GEIS provides a robust global equity index framework to evaluate the stock performance in the regional and global market. The series covers more than 7,400 securities in 46 countries and captures 98% of the world’s investable market capitalization.
Being included in the FTSE GEIS showing that the Group’s outstanding performance in the international capital market was firmly recognized, which will help to improve the Group’s reputation between investors from domestic and overseas. For a long time, Realord Group has adhered to the steady development strategy while exploring suitable strategic investment opportunities, all the business segments has steadily increased. For the six months ended 30 June 2021, the Group recorded a total revenue of approximately HK$445.4 million, representing an increase of 45.5% as compared to the same period in 2020, net profit increased 10.7% year-onyear to HK$53.1 million, and profit attributable to owners of the Company was approximately HK$47.4 million. The property segment and finance services segment achieved an obviously improvement, the Group's five investment property projects in Shenzhen are proceeding in an orderly manner, attributable to the enormously increase in net gain on fair value changes of investment properties, the property segment recorded a segment profit of approximately HK$313.9 million, representing an increase of 61.6% year-on-year. In terms of the finance services segment, the Group continuously provide more comprehensive financial services to its customers, such as placing agent and underwriting services as joint book runner of certain initial public offering projects, margin financing services as well as securities brokerage services. In the first half of 2021, the Group’s finance services segment recorded a segment profit of approximately HK$12.3 million, which increased 221% year-on-year.