Mark McCombe

HSBC China Dragon Fund is a closed-ended unit trust. It invests in a portfolio of financial instruments to generate investment returns in accordance with the objective stipulated in the offering circular of the fund. It seeks to achieve long-term capital growth by investing mainly in A shares listed in the China’s stock exchanges through qualified foreign institutional investor investment quota. The company was founded on June 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG engages in the provision of financial services. It operates through the following segments: Private Banking & Asset Management (PB & AM), Commercial Banking (CMB), Global Banking and Markets (GB & M), and Central. The PB & AM segment involves advisory services and special facilities, which include advice on special asset structuring, execution of wills, and family office services. The CMB segment includes lending and deposit products. The GB & M segment deals with capital financing and markets activities, and securities services. The company was founded by Christian Gottfried Jager in 1785 and is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany.

HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd. (HSBC GAM-UK) is the wholly owned asset management subsidiary of HSBC Global Asset Management Ltd., ultimately part of HSBC Holdings plc (LON: HSBA, ADR: HSBC) in Great Britain. Headquartered in London, HSBC GAM-UK was founded in 1985 and acts as a discretionary investment manager that offers a wide range of investment solutions across equity, fixed income, liquidity and multi-asset strategies. Their clients include the Group’s retail and private banking customers, financial intermediaries and distributors and institutions.

The HongKong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. provides banking services. It offers personal, commercial and corporate banking financial services across Asia. The company was founded by Thomas Sutherland on March 3, 1865 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

BlackRock (Hong Kong) Ltd. (BlackRock-HK) is the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of the US-headquartered global investment management, risk management and advisory services group, BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK). Founded in 1988, BlackRock merged with Barclays Global Investors (BGI) in 2009. BlackRock-HK was registered in Hong Kong in 2005 and provides investment management services to institutional clients, individual investors and intermediaries. They offer both segregated and pooled portfolio management and provide clients with access to balanced and specialist investment management.

Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Ltd. provides interbank clearing and settlement services. Its services include bulk clearing, USD clearing system, and etrade connect. The company was founded in april 1997 and is headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hongkong.