{"id":268222,"date":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","slug":"hong-kongs-us8-billion-wealth-fund-eyes-fintech-aerospace-and-ai-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/268222\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s US$8 billion wealth fund eyes fintech, aerospace and AI for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) is eyeing investments in fintech, aerospace and artificial intelligence, tapping the city\u2019s strengths and a wave of incoming talent and enterprises as geopolitical shifts create new opportunities, according to its CEO.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The city\u2019s wholly owned investment vehicle, which manages HK$62 billion (US$8 billion) in funds, would look at these new sectors in addition to its other focus areas, \u201cplaying to Hong Kong\u2019s advantages in the context of the global competition\u201d, Clara Chan Ka-chai said on Wednesday at the Asia Private Equity Forum.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAs a long-term investor, you actually see through the cyclical challenges; you see great opportunities like valuations for you to go in,\u201d she said, referring to geopolitics and other risks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As an institutional investor, HKIC was actively seeking co-investments from international institutions and identifying quality growth companies, Chan said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clara Chan, CEO of Hong Kong Investment Corporation. Photo: Enoch Yiu\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d8584143-cb50-4054-9c51-b42200a2a527_0d0b7406.jpg\" title=\"Clara Chan, CEO of Hong Kong Investment Corporation. Photo: Enoch Yiu\"\/>Clara Chan, CEO of Hong Kong Investment Corporation. Photo: Enoch Yiu<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Its dual mandate to deliver financial returns while strengthening the city\u2019s long-term competitiveness coincides with a period of rising geopolitical tensions and China\u2019s drive for tech self-reliance, opening new investment opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) is eyeing investments in fintech, aerospace and artificial intelligence, tapping the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,131776,114,131775,131777,4673,44178,240,131780,61,60,131778,47599,80,131779],"class_list":["post-268222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia-private-equity-forum","tag-china","tag-clara-chan","tag-commercial-aerospace","tag-fintech","tag-geopolitics","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-investment-corporation","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paul-chan-mo-po","tag-stanford","tag-technology","tag-us-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}