If you were to go to the webpage of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and walk away for an hour, you would find that the benchmark index hardly moved at all. Despite a strong start after the...

It’s often hard to gauge whether some of China’s economic troubles are going away or getting worse based on mainland media reports. On one hand, there have been headlines about how the profitability of the industrial...

Being able to sell what you make at a high margin is considered good business but some phony Chinese makers have discovered a better business model — fake production and sales in exchange for government subsidies....

China’s car-hailing business is thriving, but a growing number of drivers on these platforms are complaining about bad business and low returns. “I work for more than ten hours a day and earn about 400 yuan a...

Nearly half of the wind turbines installed in Gansu province in northwestern China had to be shut down in the first quarter this year, or curtailed in wind farm jargon, up from 39 percent last year....

Soaring property prices are once again grabbing the headlines in mainland media. In the past few years, government policy has seen many twists and turns, sometimes to the tighter side and sometimes to an easing bias,...

Among a set of favorable factors, mainland interest in Hong Kong equities is receiving probably the most attention. One can sense the excitement with a glance at reports from local and Chinese media. China Securities Journal...

In 2014, only 14 percent of active equity funds managed to beat the S&P 500. In the hedge fund industry that caters to much bigger and sophisticated investors, the average return between 2011 and 2015 fell...

The proliferation of fake goods in China is nothing new. Yet, some brand owners are feeling their businesses being increasingly threatened because the quality of copycats is getting better than ever. Most of us have heard...

In a Hong Kong Economic Journal article, fund manager Alex Wong gives an example of how to gain from trading shares of Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (00016.HK) by “selling low” and “buying high”. When the...

Caring too much about macro factors can sometimes prevent investors from profiting from well-run and prospective businesses, columnist Hao Cheng Lin wrote in the Hong Kong Economic Journal. Hao cited Warren Buffett’s talk at University of...

Many iPhone users are probably aware that the smartphones they are using, though designed and marketed by Apple, are actually assembled by Foxconn. But few may have heard about a group of rising Chinese contract manufacturers...

When startups raise funds by selling shares at lower prices than in earlier rounds, it could either be because the business is not doing well or venture capitalists are becoming less optimistic. These so-called “down rounds”...

China’s appliance market has been stagnant amid the economic slowdown and an excess of capacity, forcing leaders in the sector to look for new areas of growth. Earlier, Midea bought a controlling stake in German industrial...

While billionaire investor Warren Buffett continued to buy more Apple shares, numerous other heavyweights have been issuing alarms about the US stock market. George Soros is said to be one of the most bearish. According to...

It seems that internet giant Amazon can do no wrong. The company not only dominates the e-commerce industry and keeps expanding its online sales at double-digit pace, it also has a rapidly expanding cloud computing operation. More...

Investors in a unit trust were rightly angry after they were told recently that they can only get back their initial investment amount with no return at all despite staying with the fund for four years. The...

As the retail sector suffers from a slump, operators try every way to shrink their costs in order to survive the downtrend. Pierre and Benny, both managers of a tech firm, came up with an idea...

The ongoing operating difficulties and poor performance of Sprint, one of Softbank’s big acquisitions in recent years, is probably one reason why investors do not share Masayoshi Son’s enthusiasm over his latest mega deal. Son, the...

To build a business empire that can survive a complex and fast changing world, top management not only has to stay on top of things by digitalizing operations and information but also implement a robust system...