Rainmaking Hong Kong and Southeast Asia: The Bigger Vision and Mission of Family Offices in Asia with Hong Kong as the Financial and Innovation Hub bridging Hong Kong, ASEAN and Mainland China
Rainmaking Hong Kong and Southeast Asia: The Bigger Vision and Mission of Family Offices in Asia with Hong Kong as the Financial and Innovation Hub bridging Hong Kong, ASEAN and Mainland China
Rainmaking Hong Kong - the webinar 「Rainmaking The Next Family Offices in Asia：The Bigger Vision and Mission of Family Offices in Asia - Carbon, Sustainability and Capital for Purpose」 was hosted on 21st September virtually together with Good City Foundation, Tsangs Group and FamilyOfficeHK, supported by Invest Hong Kong, ASEAN Youth Organisation and Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Bangkok. The webinar was attended by audiences from Southeast Asia and Hong Kong with backgrounds of venture capital, traditional family businesses who seek transformation and other technology sectors.
 |
 |
Keynote Presentation Given by Mr. Patrick Tsang, Chairman of Tsangs Group.
The webinar was kickstarted by Mr. Patrick Tsang, Chairman of Tsangs Group with the keen sharing of the history of the family since 1950s from food and restaurant businesses transforming into market leader in technology and impact investing upon the success in real estate investments. With the current global trade affairs, Mr. Tsang shedded light on the high opportunities family offices could catch up in the Southeast Asia market especially in sectors such as Next Generation Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce and Online Media. Meanwhile, Mr. Tsang emphasized and called for more responsible and sustainability related investment to the regions together with Hong Kong to boost more positive transformation of different industries and create valuable jobs and opportunities for the next generations in Asia.
The Webinar Was Addressed by (top left)Mr. Dixon Wong, Head of Financial Services and Global Head of Family Office in InvestHK with Panel Moderation by (bottom left)Ms. Christine Williams, Deputy Global Head of FamilyOfficeHK (InvestHK).
The Webinar followed with the vigorous panel discussion joined by Mr. Kelvin Liu, Managing Director of Tsangs Group, Dr. Ben Li, Founder and Chairman of Urban Village Phnom Penh, Peggy Tse, CFA, Upstream Officer of the World Bank IFC - International Finance Corporation and Katy Yung, Managing Partner of Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi), moderated by Christine Williams, Deputy Global Head of FamilyOfficeHK (Invest Hong Kong) on the matters such as role of Hong Kong in supporting family businesses in sustainability development in Southeast Asia as financial hub, importance of professional family office community building across the regions and how family offices can work together to share best practices in investing in sustainability.
「As one of the largest real estate developers in Cambodia with one of the largest art hubs and co-working spaces in Southeast Asia … We as traditional manufacturing have the vision and leadership responsibility to continuously invest in sustainability in the supply-chain to protect the environment. Hong Kong has been doing a great job in supporting family businesses and others with different funding schemes such as BUD Fund (Dedicated Fund on Branding, Upgrading and Domestic Sales).」highlighted by Dr. Ben Li, Founder and Chairman of Urban Village Phnom Penh, Hong Kong root-ed family business owner in Cambodia in real estate development, manufacturing and venture capital.
The Webinar Followed with the Panel Discussion Among (left)Mr. Kelvin Liu, Managing Director of Tsangs Group, (middle)Dr. Ben Li, Founder and Chairman of Urban Village Phnom Penh, Peggy Tse, CFA, Upstream Officer of the World Bank IFC - International Finance Corporation and (right)Katy Yung, Managing Partner of Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi), moderated by Christine Williams, Deputy Global Head of FamilyOfficeHK (Invest Hong Kong).
The dialogue continues with the upcoming Future City Summit Annual Conference 2021 on 14th - 16th December 2021, continually supported by Tsangs Group and Invest Hong Kong, with the main theme 「Planet Renaissance: Future Lock In Not Lock Down」, with the key focuses on Climate Change and Sustainability, Smart Cities and Common Prosperity with the participation of over 300 delegates from 35 countries with public and private sectors.
Find out more about Future City Summit:
The Rainmaking Series 2021 was sponsored by Tsangs Group, the single family office in Hong Kong, strategically supported by Invest Hong Kong and StartmeupHK, the foreign investment promotion agency of Hong Kong SAR government with the hosting across 11 countries in Asia, Africa and North America, on important sustainability-related topics such as Climate Change (India), Carbon-based Technologies for Life Sciences (Sri Lanka), Re-Industrialisation (Singapore and Hong Kong) and SME Digital Transformation in Africa (Tanzania). The Series collected over 7081 Live-view reaches, 1972 social media engagement with 1030 total delegate sign-up and 620 direct zoom participants.
