Affluent Partners Holdings Limited provided consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended March 31, 2018. For the year, the company announced that, based on the preliminary assessment of the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the group, the group is expected to record a significant increase in loss attributable to equity holders of the company of more than 400% for the year ended 31 March 2018 as compared with the loss of approximately HKD 23.9 million attributable to equity holders of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2017. The significant increase in loss for the year ended 31 March 2018 was mainly attributable to the following items during the year ended 31 March 2018: the realized loss on disposals of financial assets at fair value through profit or loss; the impairment loss on investments in associates; and the impairment loss on loans to in associates.