In April, the scale of bank wealth management increased by 2.6 trillion yuan compared to the previous month.

The bank wealth management market saw double growth in size and returns in April. According to data released by the Huayuan Securities team led by Liao Zhiming, as of the end of April 2026, the total size of bank wealth management reached 34.5 trillion yuan, reaching a historical high. Ming Ming, chief economist of Citic Securities, said that the rapid growth in the size of bank wealth management in April was due to the dual forces of "technical return flow + price comparison effect reactivation." One is the base effect. In the first quarter, banks attracted deposits to bring wealth management funds back onto their balance sheets, and the significant scale reduction in the first quarter of this year intensified the rebound in fund flows in April. The other is the price comparison effect. Fixed deposit interest rates entered the "era of 1," increasing the difference between the return rates on deposits and wealth management, activating "deposit relocation," and promoting the migration of funds to wealth management.