Morning Bamboo Insight: 14 Oct 2014
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Morning Bamboo Insight: 14 Oct 2014
Macro
- (Macro) – U.S. regulators press banks for more on auto loan exposure to assess risks
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/12/us-autos-lending-regulators-idUSKCN0I10T320141012
- Deutsche clampdown on bad behaviour prompts exodus of traders –FT
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/12/deutsche-bank-regulator-idUKL2N0S70X920141012
Asia Pacific
- (Spore) – Bears Crowd to Sembcorp Marine After Stock’s 18% Drop in Value
- (Isia) – Indonesia needs new growth model to boost GDP
http://news.asiaone.com/print/news/asia/indonesia-needs-new-growth-model-boost-gdp
- (China) – U.S. ETFs to take aim at China’s onshore bond market
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/12/us-china-bond-etfs-analysis-idUSKCN0I10F320141012
- (India) – Modi seeks to revive India’s ‘zombie factories’, not abandon them
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/12/uk-india-industry-zombies-idUKKCN0I10X920141012
- (Korea) – Pardoning tycoons for economic growth; Parole’s not special treatment; Stimulus will be of no use if it fails to move companies and consumers to spend.
- (Taiwan) – A campaign to boycott Ting Hsin (頂新集團)food products picked up momentum yesterday as food conglomerate tycoon Wei Ying-chung (魏應充) made his first public appearance since the latest tainted oil scandal erupted to apologize to the nation
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/print/419237.htm
Life
- Remembering the impact Lee Kuan Yew’s speeches made
http://news.asiaone.com/print/news/singapore/remembering-impact-lee-kuan-yews-speeches-made
- The Science of Conquering Your Greatest Fears; It may be the oldest emotion. Before happiness, before sorrow, before exhilaration, and way, way before the urge to climb mountains and bomb down steeps, there was fear
- A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Jeffrey Gundlach About Investing
http://25iq.com/2014/10/04/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-jeffrey-gundlach-about-investing/
- ‘Grit’ might be more important than IQ. Now schools need to learn to teach it.
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/9/6835197/grit-kipp-noncognitive-skills-duckworth-teaching
- One Great Idea From Jean Tirole, the Nobel Economist
- Startup God Paul Graham Reveals The Single Most Important Quality To Look For In Company: Authenticity
http://www.businessinsider.sg/paul-graham-startups-bloomberg-2014-10/#.VDwEj_mSyCk
TMT
- How Hewlett-Packard lost its way
http://fortune.com/2012/05/08/how-hewlett-packard-lost-its-way/
- Why Programmatic Is Killing Creativity In Advertising
http://www.businessinsider.sg/programmatic-advertising-and-creativity-2014-10/#.VDwDV_mSyCk
- (Korea/Tech) – Maker of Korean Chat App to Ignore Legal Demands for Users’ Messages; Daum Kakao Has Stopped Honoring Warrants From Government Prosecutors in Bid to Keep KakaoTalk Users
- Competitive Pressures Loom over TSMC; As Mobile Devices Become Smaller, Race is On to Pack More Computing Capability into Each Chip.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/competitive-pressures-loom-over-tsmc-1413191871
- (Korea/Tech) – Tax-evading blog shopping malls mushrooming
Investing Process
- Vltava Fund’s Q3 2014 Letter to Investors
http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/10/vltava-funds-letter-investors
- How to Read an Annual Report
http://janav.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/how-to-read-an-annual-report/
- The Family Business Map: Framework, Selective Survey, and Evidence from Chinese Family Firm Succession
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2501364
- The New Lyrics of the Old Folks: The Role of Family Ownership in Corporate Innovation
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2487083