Allied Properties (H.K.) Limited provided consolidated earnings guidance for the year ended 31 December, 2018. For the period, based on the current information available to management of the Company and a preliminary review and assessment of the latest unaudited consolidated management accounts of the Group for the year ended 31 December, 2018, it is expected that the profit attributable to the owners of the Company for the year ended 31 December, 2018 will show a significant decrease when compared with the attributable profit for the year ended 31 December, 2017. The estimated decrease in attributable profit is mainly attributable to: lower profit contribution from SHK, which is preliminarily due to the mark-to-market losses in SHK's principal investments as a result of significant market volatility during the second half of 2018; decrease in profit contribution from TACI, as while there was a disposal of a subsidiary of TACI resulting in a gain of approximately HKD 1,634 million at TACI's consolidated accounts for the year ended 31 December, 2017, there was no disposal of subsidiary by TACI for the year ended 31 December, 2018; a lower revaluation gain of investment properties of the Group; and an attributable loss on share of results of the Company's listed associate APAC Resources Limited instead of an attributable profit when compared to the year 2017.