“Life has its ups and downs but you can only look forward,” says Frank Lowy, Australia’s fast-footed tycoon; The head of Westfield on boldness, demergers and the World Cup – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22 Jun (Mon)

Life

• Frank Lowy: Australia’s fast-footed tycoon; The head of Westfield on boldness, demergers and the World Cup: FT
• The founder of an award-winning tequila brand shares the 2 most powerful lessons his father ever taught him: BI
• Five Elements of Effective Thinking: Farnam
•  ‘Inside Out’ Is Something Truly Special, Even For Pixar: Forbes
• 14 successful people share the best advice they ever got from their dads: BI
• The ridiculous myth that ego can ever be left at the door: FT

Investing Process

• Court Appointee Chases (and Finds) Investor Cash That Vanished in China; For some U.S. investors trying to hold Chinese companies to account for accounting fraud, Robert Seiden could be the last, best hope; More than 170 U.S.-traded Chinese companies have faced accounting or disclosure questions since 2011: WSJ
• How Chinese Billionaire Li Hejun’s Solar Bet Soured; Hanergy founder, once China’s richest man, now faces company investigation after stock implosion: WSJ
• Popularity of “smart” funds push fees to record lows: Reuters

Greater China

• More ‘Tofu Buildings’? String of Collapses Causes Alarm in China: WSJ
• The Lesson In China: Don’t Go Bubble In the First Place: Zerohedge
• Subscription video streaming services expected to boom in China: WCT
• Internet Companies Writing New Prescription for Health Care Industry; Companies offering health-related apps are looking for more tangible – and profitable – offline options, a change that could revolutionize the medical sector: Caixin
• Chinese firms pour money into U.S. R&D in shift to innovation: Reuters
• In China, Illegal Drugs Are Sold Online in an Unbridled Market: NYT
• China think-tank questions state-run lottery spending; FT

India

• India set to change listing rules for start-ups: FT

Japan & Korea

• In sensitive Samsung vote, South Korea pension fund may seek outside help: Reuters
• Proving unprofitable, ATMs start to disappear in Korea: JA

ASEAN

• Rising unemployment piles up problems for Indonesian president: Reuters
• Indonesia’s Largest Animal Feed Producer Charoen Pokphand Indonesia to Enter the Packaged Tea Industry: JG

Macro

• Norway’s Shift From Oil Stirs Trouble in Fiords; Attempt to diversify economy with mining runs into opposition from fish farmers: WSJ
• Brazilian officials arrested the heads of two Latin American construction giants, alleging they helped to mastermind a cartel that stole billions of dollars from state-run oil company Petrobras with the help of corrupt politicians to whom they paid kickbacks: WSJ
• Why Railroads Can’t Keep Enough Boxcars in Service; Aging symbol of U.S. economic might is being scrapped faster than replacements are built: WSJ
• ‘It’s time to hold physical cash,’ says one of Britain’s most senior fund managers; It may be time to money under the mattress. High profile fund managers explain how to prepare for a ‘systemic event’: Telegraph
• Legg Mason Is Considering Smart-Beta ETF Strategies: Yahoo
• Asia struggles to overhaul export-led growth models: SCMP
•  Liquidity will keep drying up without reliable research: FT
• More asset managers become shadow banks: FT

Energy & Commodities

• Why Canada cannot export its water: BI

TMT

• Bosses Use Anonymous Networks to Learn What Workers Really Think: WSJ
• Slack Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg For Enterprise Tech: Techcrunch
• Enterprise Software’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity : Techcrunch
• The innovators: the customised robotic hand you can print out at home; Joel Gibbard has developed a method of producing bespoke bionic prostheses for a fraction of the price of similar devices on the market by using a 3D printer: Guardian
• As Fitbit stock soars, what’s next for the wearable firm: Fortune
• Harnessing the Power of the Internet of Things: II
• The strange death of the tech IPO: FT

Consumer & Others

• Samsonite makes move downmarket to protect China sales: FT
• Italian coffee group Illy to look at strategic options including the possibility of a stock market listing amid a period of consolidation in the $80bn coffee industry: FT