{"id":7867,"date":"2025-09-07T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:08:12","slug":"hong-kongs-financial-market-booms-as-stocks-rally-fuels-sales-of-funds-bonds-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7867\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s financial market booms, as stocks rally fuels sales of funds, bonds and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sales of non-listed investment products soared to a record last year in Hong Kong, as capital poured into mutual funds, debt and equity-lined financial products amid improving market sentiments, underscoring the city\u2019s growth as a financial hub.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As many as 1.2 million customers traded at least once on a product last year, 28 per cent more than in 2023, the survey showed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe remarkable surge in product sales underscores the dedication of firms and the trust investors place in our financial markets,\u201d said Eric Yip, the SFC\u2019s executive director of intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pedestrians in Central District on August 15, 2025. Photo: Jelly Tse\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d42178f8-71a7-4aaa-a6ab-c73127fcb2b0_686e78c9.jpg\" title=\"Pedestrians in Central District on August 15, 2025. Photo: Jelly Tse\"\/>Pedestrians in Central District on August 15, 2025. Photo: Jelly TseHong Kong\u2019s financial industry is <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/3322459\/hkexs-first-half-profit-soars-39-record-ipo-boom-trading-volume?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">booming<\/a>, driven by a 28 per cent jump in the benchmark Hang Seng stock index this year, which has made it one of the world\u2019s top performers. The city also <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/banking-finance\/article\/3316378\/hong-kongs-first-half-ipos-soar-eightfold-returning-hkex-worlds-top-spot-capital?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reclaimed its position<\/a> as the world\u2019s largest <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ipo?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">initial public offering<\/a> market in the first eight months of this year, exchange data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sales of non-listed investment products soared to a record last year in Hong Kong, as capital poured into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10304,138,3504,10297,10302,10301,10303,3742,4431,10296,4845,220,7454,111,139,69,10295,10299,10298,10300],"class_list":["post-7867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-alan-au-yuk-lun","tag-business","tag-citi","tag-dbs","tag-equity-linked-products","tag-eric-yip","tag-grand-finance-group","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-monetary-authority","tag-hsbc","tag-markets","tag-mutual-funds","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robert-lee-wai-wang","tag-securities-and-futures-commission","tag-standard-chartered","tag-ubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}