StashAway Hong Kong launches two new portfolios to open institutional-grade alternatives to high-net-worth investors

(Hong Kong, March 12 2026) StashAway, Asia’s leading investment platform for both retail and professional investors, has expanded its alternatives offering with two new investment solutions, Unicorn Top 20 and a Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund portfolio.

In an environment shaped by shifting US trade policy, diverging global interest rate paths and China's evolving economic recovery, Hong Kong's HNW investors are increasingly looking beyond traditional equities and bonds to build portfolio resilience. A shift StashAway is seeing directly, with Hong Kong AUM doubling and its client base growing four-fold in 2025. 

Available in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UAE,1 both portfolios offer significantly lower minimums, cost-effective fees, and higher liquidity compared to traditional private market and hedge funds. 

Growing demand for diversification through alternatives

Institutions and family offices now allocate approximately 45% of their portfolios to alternative investments, but despite growing interest, many Hong Kong investors continue to face barriers to entry when investing in alternatives, including high minimums, expensive fees, and long lock-ups. At the same time, the growing range of available funds, combined with historically limited transparency and data availability in the alternatives ecosystem, makes it challenging to assess and compare different investment solutions. 

“Hong Kong investors want to build their allocation to alternatives, but they don’t have time to evaluate every fund in the market. That’s where StashAway comes in,”  said Stephanie Leung, Chief Investment Officer of StashAway. “We take care of the due diligence and bring the most compelling, institutional-grade strategies to a single platform, so our clients can add alternatives to their portfolio without added complexity.” 

Capturing growth in the world’s most valuable unicorns

StashAway Unicorn Top 20 offers a simple, systematic way for Hong Kong investors to invest in a diversified basket of global, late-stage private technology companies, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Canva. With this, HNW investors can gain exposure to high-growth, tech leaders before they go public – when a significant share of value creation typically occurs.  This is a particularly compelling proposition for Hong Kong's tech-savvy investor base, which has shown strong and growing appetite for AI and innovation-driven opportunities.

Over the past 10 years, the asset class has delivered 22.6% p.a.2 returns, reflecting the growth potential of private technology leaders before IPO. 

The portfolio tracks a rules-based Morningstar index built with clear and transparent selection criteria. Each company is equally weighted and rebalanced regularly to manage concentration risk, providing diversified exposure across sectors like AI, fintech, and digital infrastructure. 

Building portfolio resilience through a multi-strategy hedge fund 

StashAway’s Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund uses a systematic, data-driven framework that combines multiple uncorrelated investment strategies across asset classes such as equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities. The underlying fund is managed by BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset managers. 

The Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund seeks to generate returns with low correlation to public markets. This complements investors’ core portfolios which are typically anchored in long-term allocations to public equities and bonds – a strategy institutional investors and private banks have historically used to enhance portfolio resilience across market cycles. 

A comprehensive suite of alternatives to build long-term wealth 

The Unicorn Top 20 and the Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund portfolios build on StashAway’s alternatives offering, which spans private equity, private credit, private infrastructure, venture capital, and crypto. Each investment strategy is designed to play a clear role within a diversified portfolio, offering investors a simple way to diversify intelligently. 

Through StashAway Reserve, the company’s dedicated HNW offering, clients also receive unbiased, personalised wealth advisory, including guidance on asset allocation and how alternative strategies fit into their overall portfolio.

1. Alternative investment solutions, including Unicorn Top 20 and a Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund portfolio, are only available for Accredited Investors in Singapore, Professional Investors in Hong Kong, and Professional Clients in the UAE. 
2. Source: Morningstar, as of 30 November 2025. Past performance is not an indicator of future returns.

About StashAway 

StashAway is a digital investment platform that was launched in 2017 to empower both retail investors and high-net-worth individuals to build long-term wealth. Offering simple, intelligent, and cost-effective investment and cash management solutions, StashAway has led the way in transforming the way people invest and grow wealth. 

Today, StashAway operates in five markets, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the UAE, and Thailand, with billions of dollars in assets under management. The company was recognised by The World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer in 2020 and ranked among CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies in 2023 and 2024.