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Hong Kong turmoil has millionaires eyeing other wealth havens

Investors are concerned about Beijing's growing reach in Hong Kong

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Police officers fire teargas during clash with protestors outside Legislature in Hong Kong. Photo: Bloomberg

Chanyaporn Chanjaroen & Alfred Liu | Bloomberg
Private bankers are being flooded with inquiries from investors in Hong Kong who are worried about the long-term effects of the political crisis in the Chinese city.

While the Hong Kong government has shelved the controversial law that sparked the latest round of unrest — one that would have allowed criminal suspects to be transferred to the mainland for trial — a new tier of wealthy investors are setting up ways to move their money out of the former British colony more quickly, bankers and wealth managers said.

A major Asian wealth manager said it has received a large flow of new

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