Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 11 Apr (Sat) – Louis C.K. has a characteristically no-frills way of making sure his daughters aren’t spoiled; Here’s the powerful essay that got a high school senior into all 8 Ivy League schools; Chasing Happiness: ‘No one will be happy if tormented by the thought of someone else who is happier,’ Seneca said

Life

• Louis C.K. has a characteristically no-frills way of making sure his daughters aren’t spoiled: BI
• Here’s the powerful essay that got a high school senior into all 8 Ivy League schools: BI
• High school student who just got into all 8 Ivy League schools shares 4 keys to success: BI
• Chasing Happiness: ‘No one will be happy if tormented by the thought of someone else who is happier,’ Seneca said. WSJ
• Brainstorming with Marc Andreessen: Fortune
• Making a Big Decision When You’re Not Sure Which Choice Is Right: TinyBuddha
• 4 Key Ingredients For Creating An Ideas Incubator; When fostering in-house innovation, companies need to understand exactly what startups thrive on. FastCo
• Harvard Business School Makes Nearly $200 Million a Year Selling Case Studies; The school has cornered the market with a product its rivals use: Bloomberg
• CFOs Unhappy with Budget Process; Only 37 percent of CFOs and finance leaders say their organization’s approach to annual budgeting is valuable, and, of those, all of them think it needs be improved: AT
• Boeing just patented a bizarre ‘cuddle chair’ that could revolutionize how we sleep on airplanes: BI
• James Dyson lines up his son as successor by buying his lighting company: Telegraph
• Her Stinging Critiques Propel Young Adult Best Sellers; Julie Strauss-Gabel, the Dutton publisher who has developed many of the star writers who are reshaping children’s literature, is known for her unconventional taste and stinging critiques. NYT
• Why a Harvard Professor Has Mixed Feelings When Students Take Jobs in Finance: NYT
• The Rise of Cooperative Games: In Pandemic and other cooperative games, players work together toward a common objective: WSJ
• Science Books That Made Modernity: Darwin’s radical ideas were accepted surprisingly quickly by an English public already steeped in science.: WSJ

Investing Process

• Blur Group plummets as watchdog probes accounts; Blur Group plummets as watchdog probes accounts: Telegraph
• Why Hair-Trigger Stock Traders Lose the Race; Have investors finally started to get their hyperactivity under control?: WSJ

AsianExtractor

• China Environment (SES: 50U, Bloomberg: CENV SP): Auditor Emphasis of Matter raises more questions on potential accounting tunneling risk: AsianExtractor
• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• Does Auditor Explanatory Language in Unqualified Audit Reports Indicate Increased Financial Misstatement Risk? “Emphasis of matter” language predicts restatements + China Environment’s Auditor Emphasis of Matter: AsianExtractor

Greater China

• Hong Kong Poised to Top Japan as World’s No. 3 Stock Market: Bloomberg
• China investors: Stock market fever; Retail money is pouring into tech shares and other ‘concepts’ – and the buoyant mood is spreading: FT
• Results of PPP Investment Model Don’t Match Early Enthusiasm; The government had hoped public-private partnerships would provide capital for infrastructure projects, but so far little has been accomplished: Caixin
• Does the Mobile Hit Game Clash of Clans Solve a Human Need in China?: Forbes
• Bond investors still betting Beijing will save their bacon: Reuters
• Stock maniacs are everywhere, even in Sai Kung country park; The current rally is being driven by investors from all walks of life betting on Beijing’s decision to allow public funds to invest: SCMP
• In China, knock-off Apple Watches have their own fans: Reuters

India

• Indian Firms Go Hunting in Germany’s Mittelstand; Midtier companies in Germany sometimes are rescued by bidders from India: WSJ

Japan & Korea

• No Closure for Korea as Ferry Disaster Haunts President Park: Bloomberg
• Japan’s Mitsubishi sets sights on niche in aircraft sector: CP
• Korean cosmetics companies racing for IPO: KT
• Japan’s Amari: small equities bubble manageable, signals corporate growth: Reuters

ASEAN

• Is Malaysia’s 1MDB a tragedy or farce?: TODAY

Macro

• General Electric to Sell Bulk of Its Finance Unit GE Capital — once the most powerful driver of the company’s earnings; The Humbling of Big Finance: GE balks at the costs of being too big to fail: NYT, WSJ
• Peltz’s Attacks on DuPont Threaten America’s Research Edge: NYT
• The Lessons for Finance in the GE Capital Retreat: NYT

Energy & Commodities

• The Rockefeller Family Offloads Its Oil Holdings: Barron’s
• Royal Dutch Shell’s Big Buy Is Blow to Oil-field Services: Services firms likely to consider more deals of their own: WSJ
• Saudi Arabia Maneuvers to Retain Oil Crown; The kingdom is struggling to maintain its share of the global crude market against traditional allies in the U.S. and Persian Gulf: WSJ

Healthcare

• Venture capitalists ride biotech wave one drug at a time: Reuters

TMT

• How Apple plans to sell a $10,000 Watch: FT
• This Custom Apple II Watch Is My New Favorite Thing: Techcrunch
• Life after God: Markus Persson became a deity to millions in his virtual world Minecraft: Forbes
• Reviving the Flagging Spirit of Silicon Valley: When stock options were larger and liberally granted, the Valley was braver, more innovative and dynamic.: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• Convenience stores are evolving to woo customers by offering new services such as study rooms, fitting rooms and food courts. KT
• Can Owens-Illinois Put the Genie Back in a Bottle? Strong dollar, disappointments abroad pour gains out of glass containers: WSJ
• Wal-Mart said the Walton family was putting 6% of the retailer’s outstanding shares in a newly formed trust for possible sale to offset expected increases in its stake due to stock buybacks and to help fund charitable contributions.: TODAY