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Energy-related infrastructure projects will get a boost as part of China’s push to front-load construction and financing support to meet demand. Photo: Xinhua
Infrastructure

China’s big new infrastructure plan puts national security front and centre

The top-level plan is seen as a departure from when Beijing underscored financial risk controls last year, and it comes just ahead of a Politburo meeting that will lay out priorities to tackle mounting risks.

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China stock market

Reits are China’s latest market darlings with buffers against price swings

Stocks

Chinese firms in CSI 300 pay a record US$157.2 billion in dividends for 2021

Stocks

Editorial | Better safe than sorry for Hong Kong’s SPAC investors

City is a latecomer to special purpose acquisition companies, but this also means it has tougher measures in place to contain risk and shield market novices.

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Hong Kong is a latecomer to the SPAC game, but the city has tough measures in place to contain the risk and shield novice investors. Photo: Sam Tsang
XXIV 2021

Whisky maven Charles Beamish on the lessons learned from single malt

Whisky investment maven Charles Beamish on the lifelong lessons learned from single malt and how they shape his company’s values

Wealth management

Wealthy investors in Asia-Pacific eye private markets for higher returns

Wealthy investors in Asia-Pacific are ploughing more capital into private markets to improve returns, more aggressive than their peers in North America and Europe.

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Banking & finance

Gold could revisit price record on looming war in Ukraine, SSGA says

Exchange traded funds tracking gold prices have outperformed equity benchmarks in Hong Kong and the US as war in Ukraine looms and the VIX ‘fear gauge’ jumps.

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The yellow metal climbed to an eight-month high of US$1,940 per ounce on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
Metaverse

CSOP debuts Hong Kong ETF to pick winners in metaverse stocks

Hong Kong-based CSOP Asset Management will debut the city’s first metaverse thematic ETF as it seeks to pick winning stocks in the next generation of the web.

Asia housing and property

Property funds look to ramp up staff in Asia-Pacific in 2022, study finds

Nine out of 10 real estate funds plan to increase or maintain the same headcount, according to the joint survey by PwC and the Anrev.

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Wealth management

Financial confidence rising in Hong Kong as Covid-19 impact fades: survey

Respondents also reported increased investment amounts and a higher risk tolerance this year, indicating the negative impact of Covid-19 is fading, according to a survey commissioned by US brokerage Charles Schwab.

A view of the Charles Schwab office location in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Banking & finance

ETF managers reap windfalls from oil supply crunch

ETF managers gained handsomely this year from backwardation, the market condition where oil futures trade below the expected spot price in a downwards sloping futures curve.

Tugboats nudging a 300,000-ton very large crude carrier (VLCC) to a shipyard on the Yangtze River for retrofitting in Qidong city in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on March 16, 2020. Photo: Chinatopix via AP.
Bitcoin

Hongkongers are among the world’s biggest investors in cryptocurrencies

The study found that 18 per cent of Hongkongers are active investors in cryptocurrency, while 13 per cent are passive owners.

China economy

The View | How US-China rivalry shapes regulatory crackdown in both countries

While both China and the US are driven by different domestic concerns, neither can ignore the geopolitical impact of their regulation of corporate giants, and investors must remain alert.

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Investing

String investment: why collecting antique violins can make you rich quick

There are only about 300 violins left by 17th century Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari – and they’re adding zeroes to their value fast

The storied “ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat” violin crafted by Joseph Guarneri “del Gesu” in 1742, currently on a lifetime loan to American musician Rachel Barton Pine. Photo: Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Banking & finance

Editorial | Hong Kong savers would welcome regular offerings of iBonds

Launch of latest popular inflation-linked investment during such an uncertain economic time has attracted record interest and is oversubscribed 3.6 times.

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Few things the Hong Kong government offers the public are as popular as inflation-linked iBonds. Photo: SCMP
Tencent

Tencent, Prosus lead US$80 million investment in European online broker BUX

The latest investment by Tencent and its biggest shareholder gives the two internet giants a greater foothold in Europe’s fast-growing web-based trading sector.

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Millionaires and billionaires

Warren Buffett’s annual salary stayed at just US$100,000 for the past 40 years

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO has requested his basic annual package remain unchanged for the past 40 decades – he might breakfast at McDonald’s, but enjoys his fair share of perks too

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Stocks

Cathie Wood is having her worst run in a year as big tech bets falter

Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg TV Monday night, Wood said the market is experiencing a rotation out of high-growth companies and into value stocks that is “happening very quickly” and is a sign of the bull market broadening.

Catherine Wood, chief executive officer of ARK Investment Management LLC, speaking during the Bloomberg Crypto Summit on a laptop computer in Tiskilwa, Illinois on Thursday, February 25, 2021. Photo: Bloomberg
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