Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 3 Oct (Sat)

Life

• To Get More Out of Workers, Invest More in Them: NYT
• How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly: HBR
• Warren Buffett urges young tech titans to give big and early:FT
•  Three Reasons You Need To Say ‘No’ More Often: Forbes
• Good design is good business: McKinsey
• The truth about story-telling; It can be a powerful tool to ensure brand success: Star
• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Has Hidden Jokes Down to a Science; The CBS sitcom works to make sure its whiteboard equations and physics references are accurate: WSJ
• One story that tells you everything you need to know about working for Elon Musk: BI
• One CEO says résumés are a thing of the past — here’s what he looks at instead: BI
• Holly Tucker, 38, founded the gift website Notonthehighstreet.com with Sophie Cornish from her kitchen table in April 2006: FT
• Presidential interpreters: Insiders behind the curtain; Top interpreter reveals life in translation: KH1, KH2

Books

• Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family: Amazon

Investing Process

• Beyond backtests: considering the robustness of smart beta: Top1000
• Are Buybacks an Oasis or a Mirage?: RAFI
• Tips for the Aspiring Angel Investor; “The percentage of failure to success is very minimal successes” : NYT
• Divestment: the new ‘investment’: BT
• New Liquidity Rules Will Make Fund Managers More Chicken-Hearted: WSJ
• Corporate governance – an investment well worth making: SCMP

Greater China

• China Billionaire With Canal Dream Confronts Biggest Loss of ’15: Bloomberg
• Troubles for the ‘China Model’; Meritocracy has worked for Beijing, but to survive, the system needs more openness: WSJ
• Scepticism over China’s data could stoke recession fears; Doubts over reliability of official figures could have repercussions as economy weakens: ST
• Tycoons not the boss anymore as Beijing calls the shots: SCMP
• China UnionPay seeks to turn its bank cards into international force: Nikkei
• China signals it isn’t embracing the market after all: Nikkei
• Can Pixar Change Its China Luck With ‘Inside Out’ Release?: Forbes

India

• Decoding Ratan Tata’s investments in Indian startups: DSA

Japan & Korea

• The number of listed marginal Korean companies, which cannot repay even interests on their debts for three straight years, amount to 234: mk
• Shopping support business booms with rising overseas purchase: KH

ASEAN

• David Teoh Siang Hai, a self-made Malaysian-born billionaire and executive chairman of TPG Telecom Ltd: Star
• IOI Corp slumps on worries of possible net losses due to US dollar debt; estimated RM670mil in unrealised forex translation losses on its US dollar debt related exposure of RM6.25bil following a 16.5% decline in MYR: Star
• PM Lee’s swearing-in address highlights sense of renewed purpose: Analysts: CNA
• Playing With Fire – The Economics and Network of Fire and Hazei: JG
• Indonesian Economy in Trouble for Betting on CoalL JG
• Millionaire investor uses wealth to help poor: MI

Macro

• DoubleLine’s Gundlach: risk assets globally face ‘another wave down’: Reuters
• This Is the Best ETF of the Past 10 Years: Bloomberg
• How Local Governments Got Burned by Private Prison Investments: Bloomberg
• Q3 investor flight wiped record $10 trillion off global stocks: Star
• A Tax to Curb Excessive Trading Could Be a Boon to Returns: NYT
• How Not to Prevent the Next Financial Meltdown; Dodd-Frank’s safeguards against chaos are based on a misdiagnosis of what led to the 2008 crisis. WSJ
• EM vs DM: not obsolete after all: FT
• Market turbulence tests popular absolute return funds; Some £5.1bn of investors’ money sits in so-called “absolute return” funds that have failed to outpace inflation over the past five years.: FT
• City watchdog to crack down on risky pension lump sum investments: FT
• Negative rates as a precursor to death of banking, redux: FT
• Yieldcos and interest rates: FT
• How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash: Guardian

Energy & Commodities

• Chart that tells a story – Glencore drags down the FTSE: FT
• Why Glencore Should Make All Investors Shudder: Forbes

Healthcare

• Valeant’s High-Price Drug Strategy: NYT
• Medical-technology company NovoCure became the latest company to price its initial public offering below below its last private round.: WSJ
• What technology can do for your health;  ‘A host of savvy new players are trying to enter the medical data field, hoping – belatedly – to push it into the 21st century’: FT

TMT

• The ‘Inventor’ of the Mobile Internet Takes on Google, Samsung: Bloomberg
• The Future of the Internet Is Flow; Forget the clunky Web. The future of the online world will be a river of information flowing through time: WSJ
• Google Establishes Alphabet Holding Company; Google shares will be converted to same number of Alphabet shares: WSJ
• The incredible story of how YouTube got its start and rose to become the world’s most popular place to watch video: BI
• Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ – whether you want them to or not; The new ‘Yelp for people’ app is a psychologist’s nightmare: BI, WaPo
• Amazon is about to announce a deal that should terrify Microsoft: BI
• – Unlike Google, Alphabet doesn’t tell employees not to be evil:BI
• Using digital analytics to gain knowledge to gain power: SCMP

Auto

• Volkswagen: A Decade Of Deception – Full Chronology: zh
• Can GM be a disruptor in the self-driving car wars?: WaPo

Consumer & Others

• World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Awaits Verdict on Textile Makers: Bloomberg
• Buffett’s Omaha Gets Stung as ConAgra Follows Heinz Cutting Jobs: Bloomberg
• The Decline of ‘Big Soda’; The drop in soda consumption represents the single largest change in the American diet in the last decade.: NYT
• Furla’s magic moment; Furla’s Eraldo Poletto taps on his American retail experience and Italian heritage to take the 88-year-old family-owned fashion and accessories brand into the digital age. BT
• Ralph Lauren, the designer of the American dream: FT
• Pleasure and pain — or just pain? Marc Jacobs, one of fashion’s great showmen, talks about the emotional business of reshaping his brand: FT
• Losing the ‘WestJet effect’: How the once-scrappy upstart carrier’s culture is changing as it expands globally: FP