China is moving from Party rule to rule of law: The constitution and anti-corruption China is deregulating markets and increasing greater market discipline: Testing enterprise bankruptcy law and allowing defaults. Credit is becoming more an alpha market. The credit markets are being stabilized through macro prudential policy: New formation of LGFVs banned. Muni bond market

Increased incidence of cancer can be indicative of the improved resilience of the human species. The environment constantly evolves in uncertain ways. To adapt to the constantly evolving environment, a species needs to also evolve. Increased mutation is equivalent to increased evolution. Unfortunately, with increased mutation comes increased negative mutation, leading to cancers. The propensity

With the coming of autonomous automobiles and with Uber’s current exploratory steps into shared mobility, the future of the automobile is becoming interesting. From a central planner’s perspective one would like encourage better productivity of capital. As it is, people who drive to work end up parking their cars for hours a day. This is

With regulation like Basel III, Dodd-Frank and other local regulations it is no wonder that banks are turning to asset management and private banking to generate fee income. The wealth generation in Asia has caught the attention of the private banking industry and many banks are investing heavily in building and growing their Asian businesses.

Outlook 2H 2015   Behind every forecast is a melee of competing ideas and arguments. Behind the veil of confidence is a dialectical process of self-questioning and reinforcement, and often, self-doubt. Behind every investment strategist is a risk manager acting as goalkeeper, and a trader dodging and weaving around short term volatility, avoiding the thousand