基金业在我国属于“朝阳产业”,面临着巨大的发展空间。从数据上看,我国基金公司有18家、59只基金、基金投资者只有330万人左右,而美国到2002年底就已拥有430多家基金公司、7791只基金,投资者达到8000多万人。但是到目前为止,我国基金业已初具规模,资产规模超过了1000亿元,约占我国股市流通市值的7％。由此对比,我国基金业存有相当的上升空间…… Fund industry in our country is “sunrise industry”, facing a huge space for development. From the data point of view, there are 18 fund companies in our country with 59 funds and only 3.3 million fund investors. By the end of 2002, the United States already had over 430 fund companies and 7,791 funds and reached over 80 million investors . But so far, the fund industry in our country has begun to take shape and the asset scale has exceeded 100 billion yuan, accounting for about 7% of the market capitalization of our stock market. By contrast, there is considerable room for improvement in the fund industry in our country.