The Real Julien Bernard 👍👍👍

Finance Mandarin is glad to work with the French asset management company. With €1.729 trillion of assets under management (AUM) at the end of 2020, one of the 10 biggest investment managers by AUM in the world. After so many months of remote video Chinese lessons, it is a pleasure to meet the real Julien in person.

Vienne Lee was authorized to be the English-Mandarin Simultaneous Interpreter for Yu Hua and Kevin Drew at CNN, 2008. Vienne was excited to share the Chinese culture by redefining the values and meaning of the book “To Live” ; 《活着 huó zhe》, by 余华 Yúhuá。

Eddy Wong, Managing Director, JP Morgan, was the moderator in Business Mandarin at the HKIFA event on 30 Oct 2015. This event had 300 participants from Asset Managment giants, regulators, HKSAR govt, HKEX, SFC, public media and certainly industry players. Blackrock, Fidelity, Invesco, Schroder, Manulife, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Life, Principal, KPMG, PcW, EY... all were present.

“ I don’t anticipate a significant shift in our strategy around being ‘China anchored’. China is a very strategic advantage that HKEX has, and we should leverage it to the maximum as possible”. ——Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of HKEX

With the coronavirus outbreak making constant headlines these days it can be a little bit overwhelming trying to decide when to go to the doctor for other smaller issues. One has to ask themselves, “is it worth going to the doctor to fix a small problem, while at the same time risking getting infected with a larger problem?”

“Money Games” is a riveting tale of one of the most successful buyout deals ever: the acquisition and turnaround of what used to be Korea's largest bank by the American firm Newbridge Capital.

“The best years of Hong Kong are ahead of us”, stated Aguzin.

On the 15th July 2021, the Finance Mandarin team joined the “Hong Kong: Financing Asia’s Growth” forum held by Asia Society Hong Kong. The VIP speaker for the event was Nicolas Aguzin, the CEO of HKEX, and moderated by Ronnie Chan, the Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited.

The relationship between Hong Kong and China

The greater the Shenzhen and Shanghai do, the greater the Hong Kong performs. Hong Kong’s prospect is closely related to the development of Shenzhen and Shanghai. Mr. Aguzin stated that Hong Kong must work closely together to create vibrancy in the market to bring fortune and prosperity to the people.

Insights from Li:

✔️ Next Potential Global Trend: Cashless Society

✔️ Worth discussion in the Finance Industry: Is it an opportunity or a challenge?

✔️ China 🇨🇳, and Hong Kong could lead the trend of cashless payments to the world if preparation is done

✔️ More small businesses (Labour Entrepreneurship) may lead in China

Since China signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly mentioned China's green and sustainable goals for 2030 and 2060 in the conference. In 2030, China will achieve a carbon peak, and in 2060, China will achieve carbon neutrality.

Mark Machin is the Former President & Chief Executive Officer at CPP Investments.

Recognized globally as an example of sound pension plan management, CPP Investments is guided by an independent Board of Directors, operates at arm’s length from federal or provincial governments, and is managed independently from the CPP itself.

He has been learning Finance Mandarin 1-1 with Vienne Lee since 2013.

Top 10 Themes That Will Define the Future of Asset and Wealth Management

1) Price

2) Scale is a matter of survival

3) Actively advising clients

4) Impact and purpose

We may attribute the success of ByteDance to Bytedance’ artificial intelligence (AI) application and machine learning. As of November 2018, ByteDance had over 800 million daily active users (over 1 billion accumulated users) across all of its content platforms. The valuation of ByteDance was approaching USD 400 billion in 2021.

“ I don’t have a teacher that gives me immediate responses.”

*Alexander Bryan, a C-suite English speaker working in the capital market, frustrated when he first tried to study on his own.

Alex is highly motivated to learn Mandarin even before joining Finance Mandarin. He had tried studying by himself. But soon he acknowledged the drawbacks of it, he did not know whether he is doing right on the pronunciations and usages of the vocabularies. There is no one to correct his pronunciations. Besides, he can only learn a few words but they are not for business purposes!

WIN-WIN: Business Models for Transforming Customer Relationships.

FOUR Connected Strategies to establish long-lasting relationships with clients:

✔️ Respond to Desire

✔️ Curated Offering

✔️ Coach Behaviour

✔️ Automatic Execution