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Chinese investors give Hong Kong the wealth management edge

Mainland links and tax incentives drive Hong Kong wealth management boom
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Hong Kong’s growth as a wealth management centre has surged in recent months following modifications to the Wealth Management Connect regional market access scheme, with banks in the Asian financial hub benefiting from increased flows from the Chinese mainland. 

Initially launched in 2021, WMC connects the capital markets of the Greater Bay Area consisting of Hong Kong, Macau and China’s Guangdong province, allowing investments into wealth management products, distributed via a closed-loop flow. 

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Kimberley Long is the Asia editor at The Banker. She joined from Euromoney, where she spent four years as transaction services editor. She has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Liverpool, and an MA in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield. Between degrees she spent a year teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Programme.
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