China Investment and Finance Group Limited provided group earnings guidance for the year ended 31 March 2018. For the period based on the preliminary assessment of the group's unaudited management accounts for the year ended 31 March 2018 and information currently available to the board, the group is expected to record a net loss for the current year as compared to the audited net profit for the year ended 31 March 2017 as set out in the 2016/17 annual report of the company. Such expected change in the group's results for the current year is mainly attributable to change of the performance of group's listed investments for the current year, as compared to that for the year ended 31 March 2017.