It’s still difficult for women to get to senior positions in Hong Kong’s financial industry, despite an increase in female representation in the industry across developed markets, a study by PwC has found.

It’s still difficult for women to get to senior positions in Hong Kong’s financial industry, despite an increase in female representation in the industry across developed markets, a study by PwC has found.
Although balanced funds saw net inflows during the first 10 months of 2018, equity and bond funds suffered net redemptions, according to an industry report.
In total, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) approved 10 mutual fund products in December for retail sale.
Hong Kong has only a handful of SFC-registered fixed income ETF products.
The product will be the firm’s second locally-authorised mutual fund for investors in Hong Kong.
Collective investment schemes or mutual funds sales rose 84% to HK$101bn ($12.92bn) from April 2017-March 2018, nearly double the HK$55bn in 2016.
Hong Kong-domiciled funds sold in the mainland under the HK-China Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF) scheme saw net inflows of RMB291.24m ($42.24m) in October.
Hong Kong-based Pickers Capital Management expects to launch a China-focused fund in Hong Kong that will be available to retail investors.
Ping An has listed two factor-based products and will be launching more, while CICC will introduce an ETF this week.
In total, the firm registered six funds with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) this year.
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