Last week, our financial blogger Owen Caterer explored some of those common terms and phrases that you constantly hear coming out of the mouths of financial advisers. You can see the first part here. This week, he continues to translate more of that jargon.
Mean Reversion
The grain of truth ... Read More
We’d like to explode a few myths today. We’ve been in this industry for many years, hearing sales pitches from our colleagues, competitors, fund managers and the endless talking heads on Bloomberg. Littered throughout is a host of technical investment sayings that have become almost golden rules of ... Read More
In this week’s edition of Money Talks, City Weekend’s finance blogger Owen Caterer is sharing some handy advice about getting life insurance.
All China based entrepreneurs and senior business leaders know the case for life insurance. Ensuring that the wife or spouse and children and their futures are ... Read More
In this week’s edition of Money Talks, City Weekend’s finance blogger Owen Caterer is sharing some handy advice about how to keep your staff happy.
How do you keep good staff? It’s the perennial question here in China where the revolving door seems strong, particularly in many ... Read More
In this week’s edition of Money Talks, City Weekend’s finance blogger Owen Caterer is sharing some of his favorite finance apps. Check it out below.
Sometimes when you are busy working it's easy to miss the productivity tools that have been created that might save you some ... Read More
In this week’s edition of Money Talks, City Weekend’s finance blogger Owen Caterer is exploring whether or not the RMB has peaked. Check it out below.
The continued rise of the RMB is considered assured. That isn’t reflecting reality – the RMB appears to have stalled at around ... Read More
In this week’s edition of Money Talks, City Weekend’s finance blogger Owen Caterer shares the rest of his top money tips for 2012. So if you're looking to take care of cash in the year of the dragon, check out this week's next six tips.
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In this week’s edition of Money Talks, City Weekend’s finance blogger Owen Caterer shares his top money tips for 2012. So if you're looking to take care of cash in the year of the dragon, check out this week's first six tips.
1. Diversify
Financial Advisers ... Read More
A European crisis looms, ever closer. Stifling debts threaten banks and stock markets. Yet what can you actually do to protect yourself and your assets? Is it time to get tinned food, a pack of gold bars and a shot-gun and head for Moganshan? A financial crisis is a tricky ... Read More
My headache this morning must be from some fake whiskey last night - it wasn’t even a big night. Many investors however have had plenty of fake related headaches from China over the past year. Short sellers such as Alfred Little and Carson Block have exposed a series of US ... Read More
After the safe territory of a “how to” post on where and how to buy Chinese shares, we are going to address the dangerous and tricky territory of prognostication. Should we invest in the Chinese sharemarket now? Our lawyers are holding their heads in their hands as we plow forward ... Read More
Since we have already addressed Chinese property over the last few weeks, its time to get onto the share market and specifically Chinese companies.
Over the next three weeks we will cover investing in Chinese Shares;
1. Firstly the different methods to buy Chinese shares
2. Then, whether now is ... Read More
Depending on whether you listen to your Chinese friend of a foreign hedge fund manager you’ll get vastly conflicting views. Chinese property is either a great sound investment or a tremendous bubble waiting to burst. We think, like most things, that the truth is some-where in between. We have ... Read More
This is the third article in a series on buying a property here in China. Let’s assume you have found a place or are simply planning to buy. How do you go about getting a mortgage?
We spoke to our contact at Standard Chartered who isn’t authorized for ... Read More
Last week, we looked at whether you are eligible to buy a property in Shanghai. Let us presume you are considering taking the next step and buying a place. What is the legal process to buy a property?
The processes in China are very different to many western countries and ... Read More
Buying Chinese property is often a mystery to foreigners, even to those who have been here a while. Whilst we aren’t Chinese property agents, we do get asked this question a lot, so we thought a user friendly and accurate guide could be worthwhile.
This is the first running ... Read More
Getting a credit card in China isn’t the same as back home. China based banks will not readily give out credit cards to foreigners.That can be annoying since credit cards are a vital tool for a traveling professional and without one, it makes life abroad that much more ... Read More