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Competitive rivalry A lot of professionals in the venture capital and mid-cap private equity space seem to be bad-mouthing each other. I...

Had catch-up drinks with a much older (more than 12 years) friend that I hadn't seen in nearly two years. Our common experience of having...

I have been teaching financial modelling for over 5 years now. But at the first ever class held in July 2018, the delivery was so badly...

“They talk about work-life balance. That’s a term I didn’t even know when I was their age. Work-life balance. When I was their age, if...

I love Shenzhen. I like its wide city roads that are peppered with electric taxis. There are virtually so many electric cars on the...

The study of capital markets has always been both intriguing and amusing to me. A lot of its theories are backed by mathematics and...

As I enter my third year of working for a Chinese company and living in China, it felt apt to reflect on and summarise a few takeaways...

I am not usually fond of reading corporate marketing material but ended up flipping through the pages of a book I came across in the hotel..

"Do you know how big is a billion? Just imagine every person tossing a coin at you at the same time." This was how one of my flatmates...

It has been a relatively productive two weeks in Singapore. Most of the conversations I have had ranged from my life in Hong Kong to...

HKIA isn't what it used to be in the old days. No crowds. Only a handful of shops open. Lounges are dead. HKIA used to be a humdrum of...

“Soldiers all around the world behave in the same way once they put on their helmets and the uniform.”