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Investors and business leaders across Asia are increasingly asking how capital can generate lasting social and environmental value alongside financial returns. In Hong Kong, many purpose-led SMEs sit between philanthropy and traditional institutional investment, limiting their access to growth capital. With its deep capital base and international connectivity, Hong Kong has an opportunity to develop new mechanisms that connect capital with enterprises contributing to a more regenerative and well-being economy.

What forms of capital, intermediation and market infrastructure could bridge this gap — and what would it take to move impact investing from financing individual enterprises towards building a more regenerative economy?

Mr. Chavalit Frederick Tsao, Chairman of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee) and Chairman of the Association for Well-being Economy (AWE), will share how purpose-led investors assess an enterprise ahead of its financial performance, with particular attention to the intent of its leadership and the quality of its relationships with employees, partners and communities. He will also outline how philanthropic, catalytic and institutional capital can be deployed in sequence, so that early-stage risk is absorbed before larger investors commit.

Mr. Bruce Au, Secretary-General of the Yidan Prize Foundation, will join the conversation to reflect on education as a long-term foundation of a well-being economy. Drawing on the Foundation’s work with education changemakers, he will consider how learning can change the way entrepreneurs run their businesses, as well as the way investors allocate capital and measure return.

Drawing on the capital infrastructure discussions at AT ONE Impact Week 2026 in Singapore, the session will consider what Hong Kong can put in place to support this market, and how the conversation will be carried forward towards Impact Week 2027.

The event is organized with support from Yidan Prize Foundation and InvestHK.

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