InvesTech Holdings Limited provided group earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2017. The board of directors of the company announced that based on a preliminary review of the unaudited management accounts of the group for the year ended December 31, 2017 and assessment of the information currently available to the board, the group is expected to record an increase in net loss for the Period as compared with the net loss of approximately RMB 68.9 million recorded for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase in net loss during the Period was primarily attributable to (i) the realized loss arising from the disposal of held-for-trading securities investments of approximately RMB 45 million; and (ii) the finance costs of approximately RMB 29 million incurred on the coupon notes issued by the group pursuant to the placing agreements dated December 1, 2016 and February 23, 2017. As the company is still in the course of compiling the results of the group for the Period, the information contained in this announcement is only based on, among others, a preliminary assessment of the Management Accounts of the group and the expectation of the Board after taking into account the information currently available, and is not based on any data or information being audited or reviewed by the auditors of the company.