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Hong Kong’s MPF made a 3.5% annual gain for the first time since 2020, adding HK$8000 fund per member

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Mandatory Provident Fund(MPF) of Hong Kong’s compulsory retirement scheme announced investment gains of 3.5 per cent last year.


The scheme which has 4.7 million members in the city recently reported the gained experience for the first time since 2020.


According to data from the MPF Ratings, an independent research firm, the scheme bounced back from a loss of 15.7 per cent in 2022 and a loss of 0.3 per cent in 2021,   Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) gained HK$37.4 billion (US$4.8 billion) in 2023, equivalent to HK$ 8,000 (US$1,024.5)gain for each member.


The fund’s last gain was 11.4 per cent in 2020, the report revealed.


MPF recorded a never-experienced third year of financial depression at the end of the third quarter as a big loss of HK$35.2 billion cancelled gains that were made in the first six months of the year.


The MPF spokesperson said, “Encouraging late-year inflation readings and the foreshadowing of lower US interest rates helped the MPF system achieve its first positive annual return in three years".


The strong market rallies in the US, Japan and other non-Chinese markets were praised for this huge recovery.





香港強積金自2020年以來首次年增3.5%,每位成員增加8,000港元資金



香港強制退休計畫的強制性公積金(MPF)去年公佈的投資收益為3.5%。


該計劃在該市擁有470萬會員,最近首次報告了自2020年以來的經驗。


根據獨立研究公司強積金評級的數據,該計劃從 2022 年 15.7% 的虧損和 2021 年 0.3% 的虧損中反彈,強制性公積金 (MPF) 獲利 374 億港元(48 億美元) )到2023 年,相當於每位會員獲得8,000 港元(1,024.5 美元)的收益。


報告顯示,該基金上一次收益是 2020 年 11.4%。


強積金在第三季末錄得前所未有的第三年金融蕭條,巨額虧損達352億港元,抵銷了今年首六個月的收益。


強積金發言人表示,「令人鼓舞的年末通膨數據和美國利率下降的預示,幫助強積金制度實現了三年來首次正年度回報」。


美國、日本和其他非中國市場的強勁市場反彈因這一巨大復甦而受到稱讚。


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