This week’s readings / links include a look at corporate funding for the Nutrition Society of Malaysia, Raghuram Rajan on central banks’ year of reckoning, thoughts on debt-trap diplomacy, inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking and a conversation with Charlie Munger. Merry Christmas! In Asia’s fattest country, nutritionists take money from food giants: When […]
Farallon Trims Hongkong Chinese
Farallon Capital Management (Farallon) recently trimmed their stake in HK-listed Hongkong Chinese Limited (Hongkong Chinese). According to a filing submitted to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 22nd, 2017, the firm sold 114,373,650 shares on the exchange at an average price of HKD 1.30 per share on December 19th (total consideration was ~US$19m). Following the […]
Silchester Adds To COSCO SHIPPING Ports
Silchester International Investors LLP (Silchester) recently added to their stake in HK-listed COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited (COSCO SHIPPING Ports). According to a filing submitted to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 15th, 2017, the firm bought 2,500,000 shares off the exchange at an undisclosed price on December 15th. Following the purchase, Silchester’s stake in […]
An Hour With Platinum’s Kerr Neilson
Platinum Asset Management co-founder and chief executive Kerr Neilson was recently interviewed by Conexus chief executive Colin Tate as part of the launch of the 2017 Conexus Financial Absolute Returns Conference. The edited transcript was published in Investment Magazine, which you can find a link to here. Very good read if you have some time […]
New Muddy Waters Short Report: CIFS
Muddy Waters Research have published a new short report called “The Farce Awakens: CIFS.” You can find a copy embedded below or download it via their website. The company in focus this time is NASDAQ-listed China Internet Nationwide Financial Services Inc. (CIFS), which Muddy Waters calls an “old style China fraud.” According to their website, […]
Readings For The Week (17/12)
This week’s readings / links include David Webb on bitcoin, Benedict Evans on what’s likely to happen in tech over the next decade, a new report on Southeast Asia by Google and Temasek, an interview with Stanley Druckenmiller and a profile of Jim Simons. The world’s first decentralised Ponzi scheme: David Webb on bitcoin. Ten year […]
Readings For The Week (10/12)
This week’s readings / links include a look at the nascent organic cosmetics industry in Mongolia, recent trends in the ride-sharing space in Southeast Asia, a conversation with the team at Verdad Capital, an interview with fund manager Neil Woodford and how a proposed law is stoking the worst fears of India’s bank depositors. Mongolian […]
Readings For The Week (3/12)
This week’s readings / links include Jim O’Neill on the abnormality of oil, the NYT on how a generation in Japan faces a lonely death, Glenn Solomon on why multi-cloud is the next big thing in technology, Yves Smith on a new paper that confirms a long-standing criticism of private equity and a look at […]
Kevin Martelli: A Perspective on Value Investing
Kevin Martelli, the founder of Martek Partners, has published an interesting presentation on value investing (document embedded below). The first section covers his thoughts on private equity vs. value investing in the context of a career in finance. The second section is a retrospective analysis of multi-bagger stocks (>10x in the last 15 years) through […]
The Robert Kuok Memoirs (SCMP)
The SCMP has published six extracts from the first-ever memoir of Malaysian entrepreneur Robert Kuok. They are worth a read – Simon Murray, the former chairman of Glencore, once called Kuok the best China watcher in the business. For those interested, you can purchase a copy of the book via MPH Online (link here). For […]