Key features

Low investment Amount

Invest in securities with a monthly-contribution as low as HKD1,000.

Wide selection of stocks

We have over 100 listed local stocks and ETFs for your choice.

Dollar cost averaging

Invest in securities through monthly investment plan helps smooth out the effects of short-term market fluctuations on your investment.

Service details

How the plan works

Dollar cost averaging

With dollar cost averaging, you can buy more shares or units when the prices fall and fewer shares or units when the prices rise with a fixed monthly investment amount, allowing you to capitalise on the potential medium to long-term stock market returns (if any) without concern for short-term price fluctuations.

Case study

Tom wants to invest HKD6,000 in stocks but he lacks the funds to buy his interested stock in full lots.

With Monthly Investment Plan, Tom can start investing in stocks with as low as HKD1,000 each month, making it easier to allocate his finances.

Let's see how Tom's investment strategies differ with and without Monthly Investment Plan:

Total investment amount:

HKD5,666

Monthly investment amount:

HKD1,000

Total number of shares/units bought:

530

With Monthly Investment Plan, Tom invested a total of HKD5,666 over 6 months, buying 530 shares at an average cost of HKD10.69 per share. Compared to buying all shares at once at HKD11.20 per share in the 1st month, he saved HKD370 on investment costs (HKD6,036 - HKD5,666).[1]

Total Investment Amount:

HKD6,036

Total number of shares/ units bought:

530

With Monthly Investment Plan, Tom invested a total of HKD5,666 over 6 months, buying 530 shares at an average cost of HKD10.69 per share. Compared to buying all shares at once at HKD11.20 per share in the 1st month, he saved HKD370 on investment costs (HKD6,036 - HKD5,666).[1]

Plan information

Monthly minimum investment amount

HKD1,000 per security

Payment account

Hang Seng Bank HKD account

Payment method

Set up direct debit authorisation to automatically deduct your monthly investment amount[2]

Payment date [3]

10th of each month

Buy date [4]

3rd trading day after payment date

Adjustment on monthly investment amount

Effective from the next calendar month after receiving following the month of receipt of customer's notice.

Adjustment on monthly investment portfolio

Effective from the next calendar month after receiving following the month of receipt of customer's notice.

Plan termination [5]

Effective from the next calendar month after receiving following the month of receipt of customer's notice.

Plan management

You can seize the opportunities to sell all or part of your securities in the plan anytime through Personal e-Banking, Hang Seng Invest Express mobile app, our manned securities trading hotline at (852) 2532 3838 or at our designated branches

Fees and charges

Handling fee

0.25% of the monthly investment amount per security or HKD50 (whichever is higher), which includes brokerage fee, stamp duty, HKEX trading fee, SFC transaction levy, AFRC transaction levy, safe custody fee, securities deposit charge for purchase order and nominee services fees

Adjustment on monthly investment amount or investment portfolio

Nil

Plan termination

Nil

Step 1 / 4
Log on to Personal e-Banking and select "Investments" > "Securities" > "Monthly Investment Plan For Stocks" from left menu, then click “Set up new plan”.

Stocks available for selection

MIP stocks with the most subscriptions

These are the most subscribed MIP stocks[6] in Oct 2025 and are for reference only. View detailed quotes for more stock information.

#1
02800 - TRACKER FUND OF HONG KONG
#6
00941 - CHINA MOBILE
#2
00005 - HSBC HOLDINGS
#7
00939 - CCB
#3
00002 - CLP HOLDINGS LTD
#8
00003 - HK & CHINA GAS
#4
00388 - HKEX
#9
00823 - LINK REIT
#5
00066 - MTR CORP LTD
#10
00700 - TENCENT

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FAQs

Popular questions

Sole-named Integrated Account holders can open an account for Monthly Investment Plan for Stocks and set up a new plan via Personal e-Banking. The new plan will be effective from the next calendar month following the month you set up the new plan, with the 1st payment date scheduled for the 10th of such following calendar month. If the 10th falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the payment will occur on the next trading day.

Joint-named Integrated Account holders need to open a securities account for Monthly Investment Plan at our branches before setting up a new plan via Personal e-Banking. The new plan will be effective from the next calendar month following the month you set up the new plan, with the 1st payment date scheduled for the 10th of such following calendar month. If the 10th falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the payment will occur on the next trading day.

Under normal situations, we'll start buying selected security for you on the 3rd trading day after the payment date, around 15 minutes after the market opens. If trading of the selected security is suspended or can't be executed due to market conditions, we'll try to buy the security on the next trading day. If we can't buy the security due to trading suspension or market conditions for 3 consecutive trading days, we'll refund the full investment amount paid for that month (including handling fee) to customers' payment account in the same month.

You can manage or terminate your Monthly Investment Plan(s) without any charges under "Monthly Investment Plan" in Personal e-Banking. All instructions will take effect in the next calendar month following the month of receipt of your notice.

Plan details

The buy price of a security is the average price of the security purchased by us on behalf of customers after consolidating their investment amounts. These prices may include both board lot and odd lot prices. For example, if we purchase 1,000 shares of Stock A at HKD18 and another 1,000 shares at HKD20, the average price would be HKD19. The shares will be allocated to customers proportionally to their monthly investment amount.

The net amount, after deducting the handling fee from the monthly investment amount will be invested in the relevant security selected by you. The number of shares/units of the securities will be rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares/units. Any residual investment amount will be refunded to your payment accounts in the same month.

You can check your account balances and current plan(s) details via "Current Holdings" and "Current Plan" under "Monthly Investment Plan" in Personal e-Banking. After each purchase transaction, you'll receive a contract note with details of the subscription price and quantity. You'll also receive monthly securities account statements that list out the quantities of securities held and market value.

No. You can only sell the securities in your Monthly Investment Plan account with limit orders, market orders, at-auction orders and at-action limit orders.

You can choose to continue investing in the removed security, modify or terminate your existing Monthly Investment Plan. However we won't accept applications to set up new plans for the removed security. The securities available for selection will be updated according to the changes on Hang Seng Index constituent stocks.

No. You can't set up a new Monthly Investment Plan with the same security that is selected for your existing plan, a pending application or modification instruction.

Yes. Monthly Investment Plan holders enjoy the same rights as normal shareholders, including dividend payments, and bonus shares, etc.

Yes. Securities bought through the Monthly Investment Plan can be sold as normal securities, with board lots sold at board lot prices and odd lots at odd lot market prices. When selling securities through your Monthly Investment Plan account, we'll impose brokerage fee, stamp duty, SFC transaction levy, AFRC transaction levy, trading fee and other relevant charges. You can sell your securities in the plan through Personal e-Banking, Hang Seng Invest Express mobile app, our manned securities trading hotline at (852) 2532 3838 or at our designated branches.

You can sell the securities in your Monthly Investment Plan account with limit orders (for pure odd lot, you must place sell instructions with market orders), market orders and at-auction orders and at-auction limit orders (odd lot won't be accepted during auction trading session).

If you submit a sell instruction via Personal e-Banking, we'll send the execution result of your sell instruction to your "Inbox" of Personal e-Banking. If you've registered for Securities Instant Order Confirmation Service for your Monthly Investment Plan account, you'll receive SMS notification with your order execution results through your mobile phone. You can also check the execution details via "Order Status" on Personal e-Banking.

Plan adjustment

You can check pending instruction details via Personal e-Banking "Monthly Investment Plan" > "Pending Instruction", where you can also amend or cancel pending instructions. Amendments will take effect in the next calendar month while cancellation will be effective immediately.

Plan termination

All Monthly Investment Plans will be terminated automatically if we can't debit the monthly investment amount from your designated account for 2 consecutive months. Any amendment and/or termination instructions made on those plans will also be cancelled automatically. However instructions made to set up new plans during this period won't be affected.

You can choose to sell or keep the securities after terminating your Monthly Investment Plan(s). If you sell them, we'll impose brokerage fee, stamp duty, SFC transaction levy, AFRC transaction levy, trading fee and other relevant charges. If you choose to keep the securities, we'll impose normal securities services charges, including safe custody fee, nominee services fee and other relevant charges.

Securities account activation

Existing Integrated Account customers

Comprehensive securities experience is just a few steps away [10]

New or non-Integrated Account customers

Open an Integrated Account and activate your securities account and other investment accounts via Hang Seng Mobile App with ease

Useful information

Footnote

Remark(s)

  1. If stock price keeps going up, the average cost per share of buying stocks through a monthly investment plan may be higher than the cost of buying all shares at once in the first month.
  2. When you set up a Monthly Investment Plan at a designated branch or through personal e-Banking, you must also set up a direct debit authorisation so that we can transfer the investment amount from your designated account every month.
  3. Applicable to normal circumstances. If it's the 1st contribution, the payment date will be on the 10th of the month after the month in which the instruction is made by you. The payment date will be postponed to the trading next clearing day if the 10th of the month falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.
  4. Under normal market conditions, purchase of securities will commence at around 15 minutes after the market opens on the buy date.
  5. The plan will be terminated automatically if no payment is made for 2 consecutive months.
  6. There's 1 stock under each monthly investment plan. In respect of each stock available for selection, the number of active investment plans set up by customers (according to our records) for that stock in the last calendar month is taken into account when determining the MIP stocks with the most subscriptions. The top 10 stocks with the largest number of active monthly investment plans in the last calendar month are listed out below.
  7. Eligible stocks available for selection is subject to change from time to time. New plan could be set up with stocks on the above eligible stocks list only. Existing plans already set up with the stocks, they won't be impacted by the change to the above list.
  8. Hang Seng Bank / HSBC HKD account: If a customer wishes to choose an HSBC HKD account as the payment account, the customer has to set up a Monthly Investment Plan for Funds in person via a Hang Seng Bank Branch.Hang Seng Credit Cards: Except Hang Seng Corporate Cards, Hang Seng Commercial Cards, JAL Hang Seng Cards, Hang Seng Renminbi Credit Cards, USD Visa Gold Cards, Hang Seng Spending Cards, e-shopping MasterCard and Private Label Cards, all Hang Seng Credit Cards are eligible for payment of the monthly investment amount. This payment method is only available to customers who invest in subscription fee class (class A units) under a Monthly Investment Plan for Funds.
  9. Not all of the investment funds that are distributed by Hang Seng Bank Limited (the “Bank”) are available here. Only specific funds are available for subscription with this account. If you are looking for other investment funds or investment products, please visit our branches or our websites for more information. In respect of the investment funds available for subscription with this account at the moment, they are provided by the Bank’s wholly owned subsidiary, Hang Seng Investment Management Limited.
  10. You can also activate your securities account and other investment accounts via Hang Seng Mobile App (not available to customers who only hold joint-named Integrated Account(s)).

Other point(s) to note

  1. The number of shares / units allocated to each customer will be rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares/units. Any remaining dollar amount will be credited to the customer's payment account within 5 trading days following the Securities buy date.
  2. If a customer retains securities in the Monthly Investment Plan account after he/she terminates all the Monthly Investment Plan for stocks, the Bank will impose normal securities services charges, including safe custody fees, nominee services fees and other relevant charges.
  3. If a customer sells any securities in the Monthly Investment Plan account (regardless of whether the plan is terminated or not), the Bank will impose normal securities services charges, including the brokerage fee at normal rate and other relevant securities services charges on the selling transactions.
  4. Customer (or all account holders in the case of joint account) must've provided consent and confirmed the personal data is correct before our cut-off time (usually at 2:30 p.m. on normal Hong Kong trading day) 1 working day before the payment date (the 9th of each month under normal circumstances) and must NOT have withdrawn your consent before the buy date (the 3rd trading day after payment date under normal circumstances). Otherwise, buy instructions under Monthly Investment Plan for Stocks won't be executed.