{"id":522820,"date":"2026-04-10T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:00:18","slug":"hk-pension-fund-members-each-loses-over-21000-in-march-wiping-out-q1-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522820\/","title":{"rendered":"HK pension fund members each loses over $21,000 in March, wiping out Q1 gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s pension fund members each lost more than HK$21,000 on average in March due to the Middle East conflict, wiping out all the gains in the first quarter, consultancy GUM said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the quarter, each Mandatory Provident Fund member on average suffered a loss of over HK$6,500, ending a four-quarter consecutive period of gains, it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In March, apart from the MPF Conservative Funds, equity, bond, and money market funds all declined across the board, with none spared, the consultancy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the market is expected to improve this month with the latest two-week ceasefire agreement reached between the US and Iran, and the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, it added.<\/p>\n<p>In the March quarter, the GUM MPF Composite Index fell 2 percent to 280.7 points, while the equity fund index declined 3.3 percent to 398.1 points and the mixed assets fund Index dropped 1.5 percent to 283.2 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s pension fund members each lost more than HK$21,000 on average in March due to the Middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[390,84,891,14058,4176,14429,49,14431,14430,14432,913,4174,4175,14433,101,5438,14428,56,54,55,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-522820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-english-daily","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-free-newspaper","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-hong-kong-media","16":"tag-hong-kong-news","17":"tag-hong-kong-news-media","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-personal-finance","20":"tag-personalfinance","21":"tag-sing-tao","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-standard","24":"tag-the-standard","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-unitedkingdom","28":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}