{"id":286,"date":"2019-12-13T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.segantii.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:20:43","slug":"osc2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Children Get Early Christmas Thanks to the HUB Hong Kong, Segantii Capital and Operation Santa Claus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The youngsters, between six and 12 years old, were bought together by the HUB Hong Kong, a local charity that helps young people<\/li>\n<li>Operation Santa Claus is the annual fundraising drive organised by the South China Morning Post and public broadcaster RTHK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.segantii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"297\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Christmas party on Wednesday held by Segantii Capital Management. Photo: David Wong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Christmas Day arrived early for 19 children who were treated to a party on Wednesday at a local asset management firm.<\/p>\n<p>The youngsters, between six and 12 years old, were brought together by the HUB Hong Kong, a charity that organises classes and empowerment programmes for young people.<\/p>\n<p>The festive celebration, which included snacks and gifts, was provided by Segantii Capital Management, an institutional asset management firm.<\/p>\n<p>Segantii does more than bring holiday cheer: the company has helped many disadvantaged Hongkongers by supporting Operation Santa Claus, the annual fundraising drive organised by the\u00a0<em>South China Morning Post<\/em>\u00a0and public broadcaster RTHK.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the HUB Hong Kong was one of the beneficiaries of Operation Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Ersoy, chief executive officer of Segantii, commended the efficiency and focus of the year-end charity campaign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.segantii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The staff of Segantii Capital join a Christmas party with local children on Wednesday. Photo: David Wong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt provides publicity for small charities,\u201d Ersoy said. \u201cIt gives the Segantii team, which is based in Hong Kong, a chance to see the good work being done here and to give something back to the Hong Kong community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also praised Operation Santa Claus\u2019s role in identifying and screening charities and overseeing the distribution of funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt focuses on areas that we naturally gravitate towards and are likely to support directly,\u201d Ersoy said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the ninth year that Segantii has supported the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 13 campaigns to help different local groups, such as people with disabilities and children, were selected to benefit from Operation Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Sadler, founder and chief investment officer of Segantii, said the campaign helped his team to reach out to various sectors of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Santa Claus is a good catch-all,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are able to give money and it is distributed between a number of local charities providing different services that we would not be able to reach on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadler said the fundraiser also came at the right time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always good to give at Christmas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published by\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3041869\/hong-kong-children-get-early-christmas-thanks-hub-hong-kong\">SCMP on December 13, 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The youngsters, between six and 12 years old, were bought together by the HUB Hong Kong, a local charity that helps young people Operation Santa Claus is the annual fundraising drive organised by the South China Morning Post and public broadcaster RTHK Christmas Day arrived early for 19 children who were treated to a party&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/?p=286\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hong Kong Children Get Early Christmas Thanks to the HUB Hong Kong, Segantii Capital and Operation Santa Claus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.segantii.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}