I wrote last week that investors should shed their inhibitions and make some short-term speculative bets in the Hong Kong market this month. The rally of the past few days has validated my view. As ma ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-14
With China set to lead a new US$50 billion international financial institution, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), most of the debate has centered on the United States’ futile efforts to ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-08
Marcopolo Tam Siu-cheong is a prestigious antique map collector, whose private collection comprises over 280,000 items. Like the adventurous traveler Marco Polo, Tam has dedicated himself to making di ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
Retirement planning is one of the most important aspects of personal financial planning. It takes into account how one spends his/her money in the next decade or two. If people don't plan well ahead ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
Like their imperial predecessors, the government in Beijing presides over a vast empire; it has never been so large and so complex – 1.4 billion people, including 55 minorities with their own language ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-02
I've travelled to Nanning in Guangxi and the border area between China and Vietnam last week. Let me share with you some of my observations. Currently, China and Vietnam are yet to build close politic ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-01
This year marks the 35th anniversary of City Forum, the longest-running program produced by public broadcaster RTHK. Joseph Tse Chi-fung, the show's host since 2004, will turn 60 this October. "I have ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-24
Lai See, the longest-running column of Hong Kong’s largest English newspaper, may soon have its last run. South China Morning Post's highly popular business gossip column will end when Howard Winn, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
The prices of long-term government bonds have been running very high in recent years (that is, their yields have been very low). In the United States, the 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a record ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-23
A celebrity television journalist, who resigned from her job at the state broadcaster last year to take care of her sick daughter, has produced a deeply personal film about China's worsening air pollu ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
Greece must implement immediate economic reform demanded by its creditors if it is to receive much-needed access to emergency funds. Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who led a eurozone grou ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-02
Western economies, as a whole, are on the verge of deflation. Advances in artificial intelligence, information technology and 3D printing have been remarkable, but investors are largely overwhelmed by ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-17
A researcher in the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party reveals interesting details in a 2011 paper about political donations and financial aid to the party durin ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-10
If you're a celebrity, you have to do it in style. What would the paparazzi say if you didn't? And so when Chinese rock star Wang Feng finally popped the question to his girlfriend, actress Zhang Ziyi ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-09
Do so-called “foreign forces” really exist in Hong Kong? Do they really constitute a serious threat to the city's social stability and economic prosperity? It goes without saying that the answer is a ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-05
Conventional wisdom has it that margin trading has been fueling most of China’s A share rally since 2014. So when the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) announced stricter rules on margin fina ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-03
I have a feeling that Premier Li Keqiang himself may be doubtful about his optimistic outlook for the Chinese economy in this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Instead, let's turn to academic stud ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
The Charlie Hebdo massacre and the massive quantitative easing by the European Central Bank reveal the profound social and economic woes the French government is now facing. One of the François Hollan ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
The European Central Bank has finally launched a policy of quantitative easing (QE). The key question at this stage is whether Germany will give the ECB the freedom of maneuver needed to carry out thi ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
According to a survey conducted by the University of Hong Kong, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's policy address this year drew the lowest approval rating compared to his previous two such speeches, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-22
