In the first half of 2025, the stock market of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ranked among the top in major global indices, with Hong Kong thematic funds dominating the top ten gainers of the "Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII)".
In the first half of the year, the Hang Seng Index, the benchmark of Hong Kong's stock market, rose 20 percent and the Hang Seng Technology Index grew 18.68 percent. According to Wind statistics, in the same period, a total of 173 stocks in the Hong Kong stock market saw their prices double, and basically every trading day, the share prices of some individual stocks reached new historical highs.
Southbound funds have become an important source of incremental funds for the Hong Kong stock market in the first half of the year, with a net purchase scale reaching 684.2 billion Hong Kong dollars, doubling compared to the same period of last year. The Internet, consumer goods and healthcare sectors became the main allocation directions for southbound funds.
"The structure of the Hong Kong stock market has undergone tremendous changes. A batch of relatively high-quality companies have emerged, and it is these companies that have driven the Hong Kong stock market to perform well," said Sun Wei, fund manager of Origin Asset Management.
Hong Kong stocks show remarkable performance in H1
