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Evening Bamboo Insight: 06 Aug 2014

August 6, 2014 5:57 pm

Evening Bamboo Insight: 06 Aug 2014

Macro

  1. Managers should ask themselves: what would Carl Icahn see?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/babeb858-1bb0-11e4-9db1-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz39Tzztfi8

  1. Germany seeks to limit investor protection to save trade deal

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bcb8ab98-1bdb-11e4-adc7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39Tzztfi8

  1. Fund managers: Assets or liabilities? Regulators worry that the asset-management industry may spawn the next financial crisis

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21610297-regulators-worry-asset-management-industry-may-spawn-next-financial

  1. FCA bans sale of financial product to retail investors for first time; City regulator uses new power to block contingent covertible securities, or CoCos, which it called highly risky and untested

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/05/fca-bans-sale-financial-product-retail-investors-first-time

  1. The inequality debate avoids asking who is harmed

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b46a586e-1be6-11e4-9db1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39ZlCXz8X

  1. Corporate acquirors take early aim at their target’s investors

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/19f3121c-1420-11e4-9acb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39Zm7qMSg

Asia Pacific

  1. (China) – Anti-graft campaign is not all it seems; Nature of Chinese justice undermines Xi’s corruption drive

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2ebe2150-1970-11e4-8730-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39Tzztfi8

  1. (Thai) – Thai junta bans computer game simulating dictatorship

http://news.asiaone.com/print/news/asia/thai-junta-bans-computer-game-simulating-dictatorship

  1. (China) – Investors Stung by Losses After Exiting Struggling Property Fund in China; Stake Bought for $120 Million in 2008 Recently Sold for Less Than $49.8 Million

http://online.wsj.com/articles/investors-stung-by-losses-after-exiting-struggling-property-fund-in-china-1407234183?mod=_newsreel_5

  1. (Japan) – Toyota Steps Off Currency Accelerator; Profit Growth Slowed Sharply as Yen Stopped Falling

http://online.wsj.com/articles/heard-on-the-street-toyota-steps-off-currency-accelerator-1407234776

  1. (China) – Elites Tremble as Xi Cleans House; Even After Top-Level Takedown, Antigraft Purges Aren’t Losing Steam

http://online.wsj.com/articles/elites-tremble-as-xi-cleans-house-1407222978?mod=asia_home

  1. (China) – Profile: Wang Qishan, China’s anti-corruption tsar; ‘Chief of the fire brigade’: Mr Wang’s willingness to say what he thinks is what first endeared him to party leaders

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bb14b9c4-1bce-11e4-9db1-00144feabdc0.html

  1. (Korea) – Part-time policy creates low-quality jobs in SKorea

http://news.asiaone.com/print/news/asia/part-time-policy-creates-low-quality-jobs-skorea

  1. (India) – India Is Luring Real-Estate Investors Again; Stronger Economy, Political Changes Have Foreigners Returning After Financial Crisis

http://online.wsj.com/articles/india-is-luring-real-estate-investors-again-1407263766?mod=WSJAsia_hpp_LEFTTopStories

  1. (Korea) – Royce: South Korea’s Influence on Asia is Hard to Ignore

http://www.roycefunds.com/insights/2014/08/south-korea-influence-asia-hard-ignore

  1. (HK) – Royce: Hong Kong: A Rich Market for Long-Term Investors

http://www.roycefunds.com/insights/2014/07/hong-kong-rich-market-long-term-investors

  1. (Japan) – Royce: Why We’re Optimistic About Japanese Micro-Caps

http://www.roycefunds.com/insights/2014/05/why-optimistic-about-japanese-micro-caps

  1. (Msia) – Bank mergers in Malaysia get difficult

http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2014/08/06/Bank-mergers-get-difficult-Pairing-of-lenders-in-Malaysia-will-become-unpredicta/

  1. (Japan) – Corporate governance – The next catalyst for Japanese equities: Columbia Management

http://blog.columbiamanagement.com/corporate-governance-the-next-catalyst-for-japanese-equities

  1. Singapore Real Estate Billionaire Koh Wee Meng Seeks Safer Ground In Australia

http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesasia/2014/07/23/property-developer-koh-wee-meng-seek-terrain-in-australia/print/

  1. (India) – How SREI Infra recovered money from Kingfisher Airlines

http://forbesindia.com/printcontent/38339

  1. (Korea) – Major Korean conglomerates shy on dividend payouts

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2014/08/127_162368.html

  1. (Asia) – Asia’s Next Crisis Is a Flood of Debt

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/asias-next-crisis-flood-debt/

  1. (Australia) – How Australia’s best mid-market businesses think and act global

http://www.brw.com.au/p/business/mid-market/how_australia_best_mid_market_businesses_mdeKiTUy4DdyNzggV3rMQO

  1. (Korea) – S. Korea manufacturing industry facing ‘perfect storm’

http://news.mk.co.kr/english/newsRead.php?sc=30800001&cm=Top%20Story&year=2014&no=1066610&selFlag=&relatedcode=&wonNo=&sID=308

  1. (Korea) – Time to Take Down Korea’s Stumbling Giants

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-31/time-to-take-down-korea-s-stumbling-giants

  1. (HK) – Confidence in HK’s mandatory provident fund schemes reached a nadir last month; 24 percent of the respondents, aged between 18 and 64, said they had “zero confidence” in the retirement protection scheme

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=2&art_id=148073&sid=42752295&con_type=1&d_str=20140806&fc=4

  1. (India) – Confidence in India’s state lenders shaken by bribery scandal

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/479968d4-1c99-11e4-98d8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39Zm7qMSg

  1. (Thai) – Thai unrest knocks GM off course in Asean

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1bbb90d0-1c75-11e4-98d8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz39Zm7qMSg

  1. (Korea) – South Korean Shipyard Workers Wear Robo-Suits For Super-Strength

http://www.businessinsider.sg/daewoo-robotic-exoskeletons-2014-8/#.U-GYlvmSxqU

  1. (Asia) – Innovation blowback: Disruptive management practices from Asia

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/innovation/innovation_blowback_disruptive_management_practices_from_asia

Life

  1. Wall Street CEO Gives His Employees 10 Life Lessons He Wants Them All To Learn This Summer

http://www.businessinsider.sg/jefferies-dick-handler-life-lessons-2014-8/#.U-BRv_mSxqU

  1. 7 Management Strategies From Some Of History’s Greatest Generals

http://www.businessinsider.sg/war-strategies-for-management-2014-8/#.U-BSSPmSxqU

  1. For Honda, Waigaya Is the Way; At the Japanese auto giant Honda, unplanned, agenda-free meetings are ubiquitous and indispensable

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00269?gko=48bd9&cid=20140805enews&utm_campaign=20140805enews

  1. “Guardians of The Galaxy” Director James Gunn On His Path To Big-Budget Filmmaking: Remember Who You’re Creating For and Why

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3033473/then-and-now/guardians-of-the-galaxy-director-james-gunn-on-his-path-to-big-budget-filmmakin

  1. In Canada, a Feud Divides the Irving Family Empire: A schism is growing within the once tight-knit and still powerful Irving family business

http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-canada-a-feud-divides-the-irving-family-empire-1407205802

  1. Books – World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents

http://www.amazon.com/World-Right-Side-Investing-Continents/dp/1118171403

  1. 11 Ways You Can Finally Stop Procrastinating

http://www.businessinsider.sg/how-to-stop-procrastinating-2014-8/#.U-EAQPmSxqU

  1. ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director Writes Awesome, Heartfelt Letter To Fans

http://www.businessinsider.sg/guardians-of-the-galaxy-director-james-gunns-letter-to-fans-2014-8/#.U-EAWfmSxqU

  1. How to Develop Your Personal Presence on Social Media and in Real Life; Presence, a Mix of How You Look, How You Communicate and How You Behave, Influences Your Social Stature and Ability to Climb the Ranks

http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-to-develop-your-personal-presence-on-social-media-and-in-real-life-1407279919

  1. Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/08/venture-capitalists-get-paid-well-to-lose-money/

http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20reports%20and%20covers/2012/05/we%20have%20met%20the%20enemy%20and%20he%20is%20us(1).pdf

  1. The Crooked Ladder: The criminal’s guide to upward mobility

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/crooked-ladder

  1. Rising Above Illness & Misfortune in a bamboo-thatched house

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/features/rising-illness-misfortune/

  1. How to build your personal brand, with Ogilvy & Mather chair Shelly Lazarus

http://www.brw.com.au/p/leadership/lazarus_shelly_build_your_personal_mzhxVPSxpzmSLgAKiq4lrK

TMT

  1. University students are cashing in on lecture and texbook notes by selling them online using a new service

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/australian-duo-turn-uni-lecture-notes-into-cash-20140730-zy2g0.html.html

  1. (China/Tech) – Alibaba Has a Computing Cloud, and It’s Growing, Too

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/alibaba-has-a-computing-cloud-and-its-growing-too/

  1. (Korea/Tech) – Samsung’s Cellphone Foothold in Asia Is Challenged; Local Carriers in China and India Outpace South Korean Technology Giant

http://online.wsj.com/articles/samsungs-cellphone-foothold-in-asia-challenged-1407241638

  1. (Media/Tech) – Gannett becomes the latest media firm to split its print, TV assets

http://fortune.com/2014/08/05/gannett-spin-off-publishing/

  1. (China/Tech) – China’s phone makers fear Qualcomm retaliation after probe

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1206&MainCatID=12&id=20140805000150

  1. The Dark Age Of Enterprise Software Is Ending

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/the-dark-age-of-enterprise-software-is-ending/

  1. Newspapers Press On, on Their Own: Gannett Is Latest Media Giant Splitting in Two, Separating Publishing From TV

http://online.wsj.com/articles/newspapers-press-on-on-their-own-1407281083

  1. Shoppers Are Fleeing Physical Stores

http://online.wsj.com/articles/shoppers-are-fleeing-physical-stores-1407281362?mod=_newsreel_2

  1. (China/Tech) – Alibaba and Tencent step up rivalry in apps market

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140805000108&cid=1206

  1. (China/Tech) – Continued rapid growth tests Xiaomi’s R&D strength; “Xiaomi now has an R&D team of 1,800 members, covering the fields of hardware, MIUI, cloud-end services, TV, set-top boxes, and e-commerce”

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1206&MainCatID=12&id=20140805000113

Consumer

  1. Why Coke’s experiment with vitaminwater turned sour

http://qz.com/244483/why-cokes-experiment-with-vitaminwater-turned-sour/

Healthcare

  1. Christofer Toumazou’s ‘lab on a chip’ makes preventing illness possible; Greek-Cypriot engineer wins European inventor award for USB device that decodes patient’s DNA within minutes outside a lab

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/27/christopher-toumazou-lab-chip-dna-european-inventor-award

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