Hong Kong Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui: Expand eligible investment types for funds and family-owned investment holding vehicles to cover digital assets outside Hong Kong, etc.

Techub News reported that Hong Kong's Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, announced at the Legislative Council Financial Affairs Committee meeting regarding the optimization of the preferential tax regime for funds, family-owned investment holding vehicles, and carried interest that a series of optimization measures have been formulated in collaboration with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Securities and Futures Commission, and the Inland Revenue Department. These measures include expanding the eligible investment types for funds and family-owned investment holding vehicles to cover digital assets, real estate, insurance-linked securities, equity interests in non-corporate entities, loans (including private credit investments), precious metals, and specific commodities located outside Hong Kong. These measures complement the government's policies in related areas, such as promoting carbon trading, digital assets, as well as precious metals and commodity trading.