Launching Innovative Retail Investment Funds In Hong Kong

Author: Mr Timothy Loh

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Launching Innovative Retail Investment Funds In Hong Kong

It is commonly believed that an asset manager who wishes to

offer an investment fund to the investing public in Hong Kong must

seek authorization from the SFC. In this article, we challenge this

belief and explore a possible new approach that may avoid SFC

authorization altogether and open up new possibilities for asset

managers to offer innovative investment funds that fall outside

categories recognized by the SFC.

Asset managers and their legal

advisers generally assume that investm...