The Golden Horizon Fund, which will target companies across the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and China, marks the first time that CIC has invested in the Middle East.
‘There is an increasing demand for diversification from domestic Chinese customers,’ says Joseph Pinto, CEO of London-based money manager M&G Investments.
Laura Cha worked hard to elevate Hong Kong’s prominence on the international stage since she became the first and only female chairman of HKEX in 2018. As her tenure draws to a close, she believes that aim is no less important today.
Companies in Saudi Arabis and Indonesia have shown a genuine interest in Hong Kong’s IPO market, Bonnie Chan Yiting, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, says at a Legislative Council meeting on Monday.
An impromptu stopover in Qatar for a university lecture led to a surprising ‘perpetual contact’ for Hongkonger Jack Lau to spearhead the state’s drive into new cutting-edge science and technology.
Li and Fok will stay on as co-executive directors, while Fok will serve as deputy chairman and chairman of its telecoms arm.
‘There are only a few [international financial centres], and Hong Kong is one of them. It is hard-won. We must not lose this place,’ CK Hutchison and CK Asset chairman says.
US banking giant Bank of America plans to relinquish a big chunk of prime office space in Hong Kong as part of cost-saving measures, delivering a blow to the office segment.
Analysts consider India a promising growth story, with significant economic expansion and an influx of capital into equities and fixed income.
Fosun Pharma will team up with Shenzhen’s government to raise a 5-billion yuan (US$700 million) healthcare fund to invest in start-ups and innovations in cellular biology, genetics and other fields related to biomedicine.
The number of events in the second half of 2023 hit 84 per cent of the pre-pandemic level and is on track to match it this year, top executive says.
The removal of property curbs in the Hong Kong government’s budget announcement last week has generated a very encouraging response in the housing market.
New World Development has agreed to sell its shopping centre and parking spaces in Tsuen Wan to Chinachem Group for US$510 million, speeding up asset sales to trim its financing costs.
Development chief Bernadette Linn rolls out land sale programme for coming financial year, with eight residential sites estimated to provide 5,690 private flats.
Hong Kong’s grade A office rents will decline by another 5 per cent this year, as demand from mainland China-based companies has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels and vacancy rates remain high due to new completions, analysts said.
China’s next big impending change in the financial market is letting more foreign institutional investors into its onshore repo market.
China’s latest act is to invite more foreign players to its US$232 trillion onshore repo market. As a precursor, Hong Kong will treat Chinese government bonds and policy bank bonds as eligible collateral in its yuan liquidity facility.
Westwell, which makes AI chips and autonomous vehicles for the logistics industry, inaugurates on Tuesday its international headquarters in Hong Kong as a springboard to global expansion.
The private conglomerate headquartered in Riyadh aims to make strategic investments by acquiring equity stakes, providing financial expertise, and offering legal advice to leading players in these industries.
The US investment bank says the residential sector will see a gradual recovery this year after the US Federal Reserve begins to cut rates and Hong Kong mortgage rates are lowered from the second quarter onwards.
Link Reit, which bought a 50 per cent interest in Qibao Vanke Plaza in April 2021, plans to acquire the remaining 50 per cent stake from the indebted Chinese developer.
In January, the secondary market saw 419 loss-making transactions, the highest since March 2023, including one transaction that lost HK$9.62 million (US$1.2 million).
Some question whether Hong Kong liquidators will be able to secure recognition and help from mainland Chinese courts to effectively seize Evergrande assets on the mainland.
Hong Kong is well-positioned to leverage its status as a global financial hub to establish connections with industry powerhouses in Southeast Asia and the Middle Eastern countries, says Azman Mokhtar, former chief of Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund
Stemline Therapeutics, a wholly-owned unit of Menarini Group, will make a US$12 million upfront payment to Insilico under the agreement, which will be followed by sales royalties worth up to ‘double digits’.
Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) topped the city’s home sales table in 2023, accounting for over a quarter of the deal volume for residential flats in one of the world’s most expensive property markets.
CEOs of major landlords and developers in Hong Kong say priorities for 2024 include offering tenants new, sustainable services and diversifying portfolios.
Forever Cheer Holding picks Hong Kong as the gateway for worldwide expansion with an eye on the US$88.2 billion global chronic pain management market whose size is seen near doubling by 2033.
A HK$10 billion property development venture in the city’s Northern Metropolis indicated Beijing-controlled China Resources Land’s support for Hong Kong’s economic development, the chief of the state-backed company said.