Snow Lake Capital hedge fund quits HK after 12 years
China-focused
hedge-fund firm Snow Lake Capital Ltd. has left Hong Kong after 12
years of operating in the city, people familiar with the matter said.
The
company shuttered its office in Hong Kong last month, the people said,
requesting not to be named because the matter is private. Founder and
Chief Executive Officer Sean Ma has relocated to Menlo Park, California
for personal reasons. Its chief operating and financial officer is also
based in the US city, said one of the people. All members of its Hong
Kong-based research team moved to Beijing last month, the person added.
While
it’s rare for hedge fund firms to completely shut operations in Hong
Kong, more have been diversifying away from the city in recent years.
Pandemic-era restrictions and Beijing’s tightening grip over the former
British colony are prompting companies to look at options in the US or
Singapore.
Hong Kong
has been trying to bolster its appeal as a financial hub. It said last
month that the city would offer tax concessions for family offices.
Snow
Lake’s Hong Kong office is marked as having “ceased business of
regulated activities,” according to the Securities and Futures
Commission website.
A
representative of Snow Lake declined to comment. Snow Lake operated out
of New York and Beijing for its first two years. It established a
foothold in Hong Kong in early 2011 when it shut the New York office.
A
former analyst at Ziff Brothers Investments LLC, Ma set up Snow Lake in
2009 with backing from Zhang Lei, the founder of Hillhouse Capital. The
company focuses on long-term stock holdings in technology, consumer,
health care, clean energy, real estate and financial industries — most
of which are Chinese — according to a US regulatory filing in January.
In
2020, Snow Lake shot to international fame when it emerged as the
author of a report released by Muddy Waters that exposed sales inflation
at China’s Luckin Coffee Inc., Bloomberg reported at the
time, citing people familiar.
In
the first 11 years of the firm, Ma steered his Greater China-focused
stock hedge fund to gains in all but one year. He added an Asia fund in
2018. The same year, Snow Lake funds were a cornerstone investor in the
initial public offering of China Renaissance Holdings Ltd., the Chinese
investment bank whose Chairman Bao Fan is now cooperating with
authorities in an unspecified investigation. It’s unclear if Snow Lake
still holds a stake.
It’s
also suffered setbacks. Its activist stake in MGM China Holdings
Ltd. backfired, hurt by the Covid pandemic and increased government
oversight of casinos. The firm’s investments in Chinese education stocks
were also dented in 2021 by Beijing’s crackdown on the sector. It had
to shutter the Asia fund after two of its managers quit.
The
firm disclosed nearly US$563 million of discretionary assets under
management at the end of October in the January US regulatory filing.
That compared with about US$2 billion it oversaw between hedge and
long-only funds as late as 2021. Hillhouse’s Zhang no longer owns a
stake in Snow Lake.
(The Standard)
同區宏利金融中心 網購公司租3萬呎升級
東九龍租務稍增,亦見跨國機構進行擴充。消息稱,觀塘新甲廈 The Millennity 全層,獲跨國金融科技公司租用,呎租約28元,屬擴充及升級個案。另觀塘宏利金融中心全層3萬呎,獲網購公司租用作升級。
通關後整體商廈租務改善。消息指,觀塘巧明街大型綜合商業項目「The Millennity」落成,租務亦加快,項目2座28樓全層,面積約1.26萬平方呎,以每平方呎約28元租出。據了解,新租客為金融科技公司Doo
Group。該集團於2014年成立,總部設於新加坡,是一家以金融科技為核心的金融服務集團,提供證券、基金等金融產品,以及貨幣兌換等業務,集團於全球多個國家設辦公室。
據悉,該公司原租用九龍灣億京中心單位,是次租 The Millennity 既可擴充業務,亦可升級至全新甲廈。
The Millennity 首季入伙 租務加快
The Millennity 首季入伙,上月開始有租客遷入,大廈近期租務亦加快,如1座20及21樓全層,每層面積約1.9萬平方呎,合共約3.8萬平方呎,成交呎租約28元。
新租客為一家本地設計公司,原租用大角咀嘉運大廈辦公室,由於業主將重建物業,故需尋找新寫字樓作搬遷。
另觀塘偉業街宏利金融中心亦錄全層租務,涉12樓,面積約3萬平方呎,以每平方呎約23元租出。據悉,新租客為網購公司STRAWBERRYNET,主要售賣美粧產品如香水、化粧品等,該公司原租用工廈物業,現轉租全層甲廈,屬擴充及升級。
據了解,該層樓面原由宏利保險租用,早年集團租用大批樓面,2021年租用同區國際貿易中心(ITT)約14.5萬平方呎樓面,並獲命名權「宏利廣場」,當中不少部門由偉業街宏利金融中心遷入。
另灣仔北海港中心中高層09室,面積約900平方呎,成交呎租約56元。商廈買賣方面,新盤銷情不俗,如黃竹坑黃竹坑道23號再錄全層成交,涉及低層全層,面積約6,151平方呎,以約6,981萬元沽出,呎價約11,350元。
(經濟日報)
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灣仔樂基中心 申重建1幢商廈
位於灣仔灣仔道165至171號的樂基中心,最新撤回舊申請,並重新向城規會申請重建1幢商廈,新申請的建築物高度限制水平較舊申請的減少近1成。
項目附近設有英皇集團中心、集成中心等指標商廈,地盤面積約6,932平方呎,現坐落於「住宅 (甲類)」用地之上。
申請人Top Talent Development Limited最新向會方申請以地積比率約15倍,重建1幢25層高 (另設2層地庫) 的商廈,以發展食肆、商店及服務行業、辦公室,總樓面約10.4萬平方呎。
總樓面面積 較舊申請減30呎
值得一提的是,翻查對上一次申請,申請人擬將建築物高限由110米 (主水平基準上,下同) 放寬至121米,惟是次申請擬將建築物高限維持在110米,減幅約9%,而層數則維持25層。同時,總樓面面積亦錄輕微減幅,新申請的總樓面較舊申請的少30多平方呎。
申請人指,最新申請符合用地的規劃意向,而且灣仔區欠缺足夠的休憩用地,並受灣仔道車流的環境滋擾,相比起用地劃作的住宅用途,地點更適合發展為商業用途。
此外,項目將會加入不同設計優點,包括沿着灣仔道、交加里樓宇後移,及設階梯式的建築設計等。
(經濟日報)
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新世界1.88億沽名鑄50個車位
新世界積極拆售非核心一籃子物業,其中與市建局合作發展的尖沙嘴名鑄,消息指,該公司上月以1.88億沽出項目地庫停車場,涉及約50個停車位,即每個車位平均成交價376萬,據了解,新買家以公司名義購入。
平均每個成交價376萬
名鑄涉及345伙,項目基座為K11購物藝術館商場及酒店,地庫四層停車場只有59個住客車位,即平均接近6名住戶爭一個車位,因此地庫車位向來渴市。據悉,新世界過往將這批車位作出租用途,高峰期每個車位月租高達逾9000元,現時平均月租約6000元;若以目前租金計算,每個車位的租金回報只有1.91厘。
事實上,新世界近年陸續出售非核心物業,包括去年底以20億沽出新蒲崗九龍貝爾特酒店、過去半年亦先後沽售商廈及商鋪等。
(星島日報)
西營盤利宏大樓 強拍底價4.65億
裕景興業就西營盤干諾道西133至134號利宏大樓,於2019年5月向土地審裁處申請強制拍賣,經過約4年時間,最新獲土地審裁處批出強制售賣令,底價定為4.65億元。
利宏大樓位於干諾道西近東邊街,1969年落成,樓齡約54年,屬於1幢8層高的商住唐樓,最低層為地舖連閣樓,其以上作住宅用途,設有2條公共樓梯,沒有升降機。
裕景興業一方於2019年提出強拍時,已經持有該廈約85.71%業權,尚餘約5個單位未能成功收購,土地審裁處最終批准以底價4.65億元拍賣。
資料顯示,利宏大樓佔地約2835方呎,具潛力重建為商業樓宇,可建樓面面積約42530方呎。
另外,土地審裁處2021年拒絕山頂道81號至95號豪宅「十間」小業主聯合提出的強拍申請,申請一方提出上訴,土地審裁處昨天再頒下判案書,認為上訴沒有合理機會取得勝訴,駁回上訴申請。
(信報)