HANTEC INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED A Major Staff Recruitment Event to Tap the Top Financial Services Talents to Grow the Winning Team For Expansion

The Securities and Futures Ordinances, which will come into operation on April 1, 2003, will replace the current 12 licenses with a single licensing regime that covers nine regulated activities including dealing in securities and futures contracts, leveraged foreign exchange trading, advising on securities, futures contracts and corporate finance, providing automated trading services, securities margin financing and asset management services. Hantec Investment Holdings Limited is one of the very few well-placed company groups in possession of all the main financial, advisory and dealer licenses for a wide array of financial products and instruments which allows it to offer to its clients comprehensive one-stop integrated financial services.

In line with the Group's future development strategy and market positioning, the present recruitment campaign aims to fill more than 100 newly created positions. The Group is set to accelerate its expansion plans for both overseas and China markets and has in fact appointed experienced local financial professionals at various countries to be their respective Chief Representatives. The Group is now looking for Assistant Chief Representatives to act as a bridge between those representative offices and the Hong Kong headquarters and to bring the Hong Kong and western style of business management into each of the Group's respective local business centres. To capitalize on the China market opportunities with China's accession to WTO, the Group is presently considering to establish new offices in Chengdu and Guangzhou to enhance its operation in the Mainland.

Andrew Tang, Vice Chairman and General Manager of Hantec Investment Holdings Limited, said: "To cope with the current extremely competitive operating environment and the increasingly stringent rules governing local financial services operations, the Group sees a greater need to recruit quality staff with higher qualifications. Through today's recruitment exercise, we hope to be able to find experienced professionals who are highly self-motivated and at the same time ready to make changes to be a member of our front-line sales and marketing specialist team. Building on the Group's comprehensive business platform whilst leveraging on the Group's recognized brand name and drawing on our back office promotional support, our team can enjoy the synergic benefits of cross selling the Group's very many and diverse financial services, putting itself in a much better position to offer value-added services to our valuable clients."

Apart from the positions that require relevant experience or related license qualifications, the Group also offers more than 60 trainee positions for fresh graduates to apply. Mr Richard Lam, Executive Director of Hantec Investment Holdings Limited noted: "More corporations and especially financial services companies have come to recognize the importance of good corporate governance, business integrity and professional ethics. Practitioners of the financial services industry are required to obtain relevant academic and professional qualifications or licenses. The Group places a strong emphasis on our staff quality and requires them to fulfill a certain standard in subjects like mathematics, economics and accounting. We also understand that in order to face the challenge ahead, our staff must have strong analytical ability as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills. By recruiting prime candidates with suitable potential and providing them with appropriate training, we hope they will become the Group's growth driver for future development and innovation."

Mr Tang concluded: "Our strength and advantage lie in our Group's ability to provide a comprehensive range of financial products and services. This can be illustrated by the fact that despite the continued weakening of the traditional securities trading market, we are able to avoid retrenching our staff but instead redeploying them to departments that needed them and reallocating our resources in a timely fashion. Within the short space of one year, we have made some remarkable progress and been able to successfully expand our personal financial management services by setting up seven personal financial services centers. Our Group is prepared and equipped to face the varying demands brought by the changing economic times by being proactive and actively reviewing our skill set and actually relishing such challenges posed as wonderful opportunities for new business development."

About Hantec
Founded in 1990 by the Chairman, Mr Tang Yu Lap together with a number of financial experts and banking professionals, Hantec Group is a group of companies offering integrated comprehensive financial and investment services including leveraged forex trading, securities trading, financial advisory services, fund management, commodities and futures trading, asset management, corporate finance, personal financial services and affinity credit card. With 5 representative offices in Beijing, Paris, Tokyo, Manila and Taipei, the Group is headed by its listed vehicle in Hong Kong, Hantec Investment Holdings Limited (HKSE: 111).

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