The two firms join forces to offer Money Plus, an app that can transfer cash to a WeInvest money market fund.

The two firms join forces to offer Money Plus, an app that can transfer cash to a WeInvest money market fund.
A number of Chinese firms have launched money market funds in Hong Kong this year as investors lean toward safe assets.
Only two products out of roughly 5,000 mutual funds available to Hong Kong and Singapore investors have overweights in the four Asia tech heavyweights.
Gao Teng, the internet giant’s joint venture, has begun selling its first product in Hong Kong.
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The firm’s global balanced fund will be sub-advised by Toronto-based Mackenzie Investments. Separately, Tencent’s joint venture is also expected to launch its fixed income fund.
The flagship Chinese tech firm is looking to enter Hong Kong’s mutual funds market.
Mutual funds with substantial holdings in China’s three internet giants – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – underperformed the MSCI China index in 2017, data from FE show.
The healthcare and banking sectors will lead China equity returns in 2018, according to Liu Yang, chairwoman of boutique fund house Atlantis Investment Management.
China’s regulatory body for internet security is said to be in discussions for ownership stakes in tech giants such as Tencent and social media units under Alibaba, according to industry reports.
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