Room 408, St George's Building, 2 Ice House Street, Central
Canpac Investment Limited holds and deploys its own capital. It is not a fund, an asset manager, a brokerage or a lender to the public, and it has nothing to sell to anyone reading this page.
That is worth stating first because the word "investment" in a company name carries an implication it has not earned. In Hong Kong the same word appears above businesses doing five or six unrelated things, some of which require a licence and some of which do not, and the public is generally left to guess which is which.
So the substance of this site is the table below rather than anything about us. It sets out who is regulated by whom, and what each type of entity is permitted to do with your money. Once that is clear, the checks worth running on any company — including this one — become obvious.
Simplified deliberately. The point is not the detail but the shape: different activities sit with different regulators, and a company carrying on none of them is not "unregulated in a worrying way" — it is simply a company that cannot lawfully take your money in the first place.
| Type of entity | Overseen by | May do | May take money from the public? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank / authorised institution | Hong Kong Monetary Authority | Accept deposits, operate accounts, lend | Yes — deposits |
| Licensed corporation | Securities and Futures Commission | Deal in or advise on securities, manage assets, advise on corporate finance | Yes — within its licence |
| Money lender | Registrar of Money Lenders, Companies Registry; enforced by the Commissioner of Police | Lend under the Money Lenders Ordinance, Cap. 163 | No — may lend, not take |
| Insurance intermediary | Insurance Authority | Arrange and advise on insurance products | No — premiums only |
| Private company investing its own capital | Companies Registry, as any company | Own its own assets. That is the whole list | No — never |
A firm licensed to deal in securities is not thereby licensed to manage your portfolio, and neither permits taking deposits. When a company mentions a licence, the useful question is which activity it covers — not whether one exists.
An entity with no licence is not a daring alternative to a regulated one. It is an entity that may not lawfully do the regulated thing at all. If such a company offers you an investment, the offer itself is the problem.
Letterheads, certificates and reference numbers can be produced by anyone. The SFC publishes a public register of licensed corporations and the HKMA a register of authorised institutions. Type the name in yourself; do not follow a link you were sent.
Specific positions are nobody's business but ours, and publishing them would serve only to look impressive. The categories are these.
This company rents a room in a well-known building on Ice House Street, alongside recruitment firms, investment managers and consultancies. None of that says anything about any of us. A prestigious address can be rented by the month, and a company name resembling a listed group can be incorporated for a modest fee.
Both are standard raw material for fraud, and both work because people treat them as evidence. If a company approaches you about money, verify the exact legal name against the Companies Registry and the relevant regulator's register, and treat the letterhead as decoration. Apply that to us as readily as to anyone else — we would rather be checked than believed.
No. There is no fund, no vehicle, no note and no arrangement of any kind. If anybody suggests otherwise while using this company's name, they are not connected with it and the matter should be reported.
Because we carry on no regulated activity. Licences attach to activities — managing assets for others, dealing in securities, advising on corporate finance — and we do none of them. A company investing only its own money sits outside that framework and, by the same token, cannot lawfully take yours.
Search the SFC's public register for licensed corporations, the HKMA's register for authorised institutions, and the Companies Registry for the legal entity itself. Type the names in yourself rather than following a supplied link, and confirm the full legal name matches exactly.
Then the conversation is over. A promised or guaranteed return, urgency, a request to pay into a personal account, or pressure to keep the matter confidential — any one of these is sufficient on its own. You do not need to understand how a scheme works in order to decline it.
No. Performance figures exist to inform investors and to attract them. With no investors, the first purpose does not arise and the second is one we have no use for. Treat any private company advertising investment returns to the public as a company trying to acquire some.
Enquiries from counterparties, advisers and businesses. We do not respond to enquiries about investing with us, because there is nothing to invest in and a polite reply that leaves the door ajar would be worse than a plain refusal.
If you have been approached by anyone offering an investment in or through this company, that approach did not come from us.
Stop sending money, and do not send further sums in an attempt to release what has already gone — that second payment is what such schemes are designed to obtain. Report the matter to the Hong Kong Police Force, and suspected unlicensed activity to the Securities and Futures Commission. Then tell us at the address opposite, so that we know it is happening.