Financial Market

Hong Kong Reits need greater flexibility

5 Jun 2013

The development of the international financial industry has been robust and rapid, and to maintain its position as an international financial centre, Hong Kong must align itself with market...

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Asia at risk if insolvencies hit euro zone

8 Apr 2013

According to IMF data, central banks in emerging economies cut their euro holdings by 8 per cent, or €45 billion (HK$450 billion) in 2012. The world economy is moving towards a multipolar currency...

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For new mainland elite, Hong Kong's financial future is personal

19 Jan 2013

In 2009, a group of mainland financial professionals in Hong Kong put their names to an opinion piece calling for a new government entity to beef up and promote our financial market. Nobody...

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A new financial council won't take us anywhere

17 Jan 2013

I want to sit on the Financial Services Development Council. Yum-yum-yum. Rarely in the history of mankind will any group of people be able to dine so well and so often as this bunch will, both at...

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China to begin tests on expanded short selling system

15 Nov 2012

The mainland's securities regulator is expected to begin testing a new technical system for expanded short selling in the coming weeks, a move likely to exacerbate the bearish sentiment on markets...

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Finance jobs still in credit

3 Aug 2012

The financial services sector has generally remunerated its employees well, relative to other sectors. This is typically because of the complexity of the work, the long working hours, margins and...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Smart money

The best resources for preparing for financial crisis

gainspainscapital.com

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Government is the cause of market failure, not its solution

Leung Chun-ying believes a more interventionist government would be a good thing.

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Going upmarket

Think tanks have been sweating out ideas to fight poverty. But, so far, they have come up dry. It never occurred to them to look to wet markets as a solution to poverty or even wealth creation....

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A brief history of crisis

Philip Poole has been around. The global head of macro and investment strategy of HSBC Global Asset Management, he previously served as emerging markets economist and has been in this industry for...

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Revived housing scheme leaves no room for fairness

In light of the rather inactive HOS secondary market, I have asked the Housing Authority to seriously consider measures that can facilitate upward mobility of those in the new scheme ...

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Smart Money

Some useful investing resources:

tradermike.net

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