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For Gen Z, greed isn't always good

“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...

Musings from a few interesting people

Words from a few folks which I had whiskey with today: A lot of investment firms out there have earned themselves a reputation for doing...

Welcome to the world's largest gambling den

"This is the nature of capitalism, get over it." - Kevin O'Leary After nearly two decades of being in finance I still don't think I...

In the end, it will all make sense

"At twenty, you don’t get the life you deserve, you are just the product of the environment you were lucky or unlucky to have. Then, as...

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...

What the whales own matter to the fishes

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

“Don’t waste time on the WACC”

...is what I constantly tell the folks in my practical valuation and financial modelling classes. I sometimes feel bad for saying this....

Cultural learnings

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...

The perils of a suitcase life

During the initial years of starting IJK, we contemplated the option of moving me from Singapore to...

Inner peace and self-realisation

Come next year on 3 January, I would have clocked three years into my current company. Unknown to many, this is my longest ever unbroken...