# China mutual funds

Star Manager to Reputation Risk: How Wan Jianjun’s Rapid Rise at HuaAn Turned into a Trust Crisis

Wan Jianjun, once a top-performing fund manager at HuaAn, has seen five of seven funds he runs fall into loss and his assets under management shrink by about 60% amid large drawdowns and investor redemptions. The decline stems from high‑density fund launches at market peaks, forced takeovers of troubled mandates, and repeated, mistimed sector rotations that turned a once-coherent investment process into reactive hot‑money chasing. The episode highlights governance risks in China’s retail-driven fund industry and could prompt tighter scrutiny of product marketing and manager role expansion.