HK millionaires pulling out of Europe

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14 September 2015
| By Nicholas |
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Wealthy investors from Hong Kong are turning their focus towards Latin America and Africa, while cutting allocations to Europe, despite improving economic conditions in the continent.

A report from WealthInsights found Hong Kong millionaires slashed their investments in Europe from 11.7 per cent in 2010 to 7.2 per cent in 2014.

The shift away from European investments has a rise in investor focus on emerging markets, particularly Latin America and Africa, WealthInsight economist, Dr Roselyn Lekdee said, with the Asia-Pacific region remaining the preferred location for Hong Kong's high net worth individuals' (HNWIs') offshore investments.

"Similar to China, HNWIs in Hong Kong prefer to keep their investments closer to home with nearly 60 per cent of their foreign assets invested in Asia Pacific in 2014, largely in financial services sector," she said.

"However, with a rather grim regional economic outlook as the Chinese's economy continues to slowdown and the impact of Shanghai stock market crash is taking its toll widely than expected, local investors are now forced to ‘diversify' and ‘select' where they want to invest.

"Emerging markets such as Latin America and Africa have become more attractive due to larger profit margins in their investment opportunities, particularly in FMCG, infrastructure and impact investments."

The report forecast that foreign asset holdings are expected to reach US$546.1 billion by 2019, accounting for almost 40 per cent of Hong Kong's total HNWI assets.

 

Where are Hong Kong's HWNIs' foreign assets held:

Asia-Pacific

60 per cent

North America

17 per cent

Latin America

11.5 per cent

Europe

7.2 per cent

Africa

3.1 per cent

The Middle East

2.7 per cent

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