https://www.scmp.com/rss/321968/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com I always wanted to be in finance; I am drawn to the energy and intensity, but most of all the intellectual challenge. Managing money professionally is probably the best thing next to professional sports. The market is objective: it doesn’t care whether you have a PhD or a CFA, only three letters count – PnL, profit and loss. As a college student, my rude introduction to finance almost ended up in bankruptcy as I speculated on options with no understanding of the Black-Scholes-Merton pricing... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1893796/why-walking-away-successful-career-finance-not-so-hard?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1893796/why-walking-away-successful-career-finance-not-so-hard?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:08:26 +0000 The discourse on Asia's "rise" is dominated by China and India, countries whose vast populations and buoyant economies have captured the imagination of international investors, journalists and policy analysts. "Chindia"-scented rhetoric abounds with catchphrases that state the obvious, but whose import is less so. China has the hardware, India the software; India needs China's roads, China could do with India's political inclusiveness. Given how fundamentally different India and China are,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1778843/india-and-indonesia-are-two-kind?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1778843/india-and-indonesia-are-two-kind?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:30:15 +0000