More Wealthy Women Are Getting Into Asia’s Financial Markets, Survey Shows

More women of means from Hong Kong, Singapore and the Chinese mainland have been playing the markets since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new survey shows.

The number of woman investors with at least $120,000 in liquid financial assets in the Asian markets grew 14% from January 2019 to the end of last year, according to a survey report that HSBC Holdings PLC released Monday ahead of International Women’s Day. The results were based on a poll of 378,000 HSBC customers.