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Sep 11, 2024
Random and unfiltered thoughts over the last two weeks
Competitive rivalry in venture capital, recession and tech jobs in China, a banker's pipe dream and how to legitimately lose money.
Sep 5, 2024
Deriving an accurate discount rate is a fool's errand
Value sits with the beholder of cash in his pockets, who are you to say otherwise?
Jul 26, 2024
Motivations.
Do you really like the business of investing or do you just want to look like an investor?
Jun 25, 2024
A great way to fly again
SIA ends an interesting chapter of its history with redemption of its last remaining MCBs.
May 3, 2024
The Avocado Bell Curve God
Even seemingly intelligent humans, when desperate, gullible and possibly even bored enough, will believe nearly everything you tell them.
Apr 11, 2024
Musings from a few interesting people
Not all PE firms are created the same, China, broken return models, decision making, stupid questions, and the art of investor relations.
Mar 5, 2024
Hong Kong needs a “Taylor Swift event"
I love Shenzhen. I like its wide city roads that are peppered with electric taxis. There are virtually so many electric cars on the...
Feb 4, 2024
What the whales own matter to the fishes
It only takes one bad month, one wrongly sized bad trade.

May 18, 2023
Lessons from Singapore Airlines
When the world surprises the hell out of you and leaves you at the mercy of cash flows, anything and everything goes.

Apr 14, 2023
A few observations
"Illiquidity Is The New Leverage And Flows Are More Important Than Fundamentals" - Eric Peters, CIO, One River Asset Management Tulip...
Mar 26, 2023
The changing narrative on China
"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...
Mar 21, 2023
The end of free market principles
For years, practitioners in the industry have understood, accepted and have been taught that equity holders stand behind debt holders...

Mar 9, 2023
Fair value vs high value
Curating and designing the short-term narrative towards a high value sometimes comes at a cost.
Feb 25, 2023
Redundancies
"You don't have to have every single answer. It doesn't matter how many blue trucks a company owns. More important is what can you do in...
Dec 26, 2022
The era of bullshitting is over
Social media had only really started to take off some time in 2009. In the 2020 TV documentary The Social Dilemma, the show talks about...
Dec 15, 2022
Reflections for the year end
"In the end, I am a teacher; that is really how I see myself." – Jorge Paulo Lemann When we think about teaching, instructional delivery...
Dec 11, 2022
No such thing as fair value
I always have had interesting conversations around the assumption and concept of terminal value (TV) in my valuation and financial...
Dec 5, 2022
A new new normal
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...
Dec 1, 2022
Stupid money is as stupid does
When FTX imploded, some of the largest investors including OTPP and Temasek Holdings issued public statements to disclose their full...
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