The Hong Kong Government has actively expanded the family's office business market in recent years. So far, 100 family offices have stated that they are interested in developing or expanding their business in Hong Kong.The official confidence has achieved the goal of attracting more than 200 households to settle or expand its business before 2025.
The Hong Kong Government has launched a number of measures in the past year to attract overseas family offices to Hong Kong.Among them, the Financial Affairs and Treasury Bureau and the Investment Promotion Department hosted the second "Yuze Xiangjiang" summit forum on Wednesday (March 27), inviting more than 400 from Hong Kong, Mainland China, North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.The famous family and their professional teams attended, and the scale far exceeded last year.
The theme of this forum with the theme of "helm in the wind" discusses how to promote the settlement of the global family office in Hong Kong and continue to flourish.However, the whereabouts of overseas rich people who went to Hong Kong to attend the event were low -key. The press release issued by the Hong Kong government did not reveal the identity of any attendee. The forum was also held in the form of closed doors.
Chen Haozhang, deputy director of the Hong Kong Government Finance and Economics and Treasury Bureau, said in an exclusive interview with the Hong Kong letter on Wednesday that since the first "Yuze Xiangjiang" Summit Forum was held last year, the official has received hundreds of family offices inquiries.100 indicates that they intend to settle in or expand their business in Hong Kong. I believe that they will eventually come to Hong Kong. It is only required for registration and recruitment. Among them, there are households from the mainland, Asians and Europe and the United States.The goal.
Chen Haozhen said that except for the Middle East households, the world includes European and American households, which are the targets of the Hong Kong government.He said that because Hong Kong is very international, no matter whether it is in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Asia, and Asia, anyone hopes to use Hong Kong's international financial center status to carry out business.The households settled in Hong Kong, funds are placed in Hong Kong, can invest in different places, such as the mainland, Hong Kong and other parts of Asia, and even the global asset market.
He also said that in addition to investment, households can exert extra functions, such as supporting economic green transformation and holding charity activities, etc. Hong Kong can help achieve relevant goals.
Hong Kong TVB reported on Wednesday that members of the Dubai chief family in the Middle East Arab Emirates decided to open a family office in Hong Kong to manage 500 million US dollars (S $ 674 million) assets.Relevant family members have recently communicated in many cities in mainland China to understand the business opportunities that enter the mainland market through Hong Kong.
The station visited the nephew of Dubai chief, Ali Almatum, who said in the interview that they decided to set up a home office in Hong Kong, The advantage of Hong Kong back to mainland China .In addition, they are optimistic about Hong Kong's geographical location, excellent infrastructure, simple low tax system, and close connection with the mainland and global markets.
Cai Sixing, a lecturer of the General Scholarship of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that Hong Kong is a mature international financial center. Although the development of the family office market is slightly behind Singapore, it has the advantage of the post -issuing advantage and can be calm and can be quiet.Brake, serving other economies that are affected by geopolitical and needed decentralized funds.In addition to Asian'an, Hong Kong should magnify its eyes to Eastern Europe, the Middle East and even South America.
He believes that the Russian and Ukraine War continued, and the political stance of neutrality has begun to charge Russia's assets.Looking forward to the future, Hong Kong government must not only position Hong Kong as China's international financial center , it is necessary to start towards the goal of "Asia and Switzerland", and is committed to becoming an international fund "shelter".
The so -called family office refers to a private company that specializes in providing investment management and wealth management for wealthy families. The purpose is to help the wealthy family to achieve cross -generation of wealth, and the source of financial management funds of the family office is the family's own funds.
The Hong Kong Investment Promotion Department commissioned the International Accounting Firm to conduct a study earlier to calculate more than 2,700 single -family offices in Hong Kong, which is nearly doubled compared with the 1,400 released by Singapore in the previous year.
