Nicholas Brooke: Huge market potential for clean technologies
Nicholas Brooke, Chairman, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Hong Kong Science and Technology Park is home to 380 companies, many of which are SMEs in need of some assistance to bring an idea to a commercial application. Nicholas Brooke outlines the range of services the park can provide for them, its plan to set the bar for green technologies, and how China’s desire to address climate change will present major opportunities.
Dr Hing Tang, Managing Director, BOCI-Prudential Asset Management
What makes a good asset manager? Dr Hing Tang explains the four key areas that have made BOCI-Prudential Asset Management a market leader: good corporate governance, a robust investment process, product innovation, and sensible partnerships. He also discusses investors’ attraction to China, the steadily expanding ‘dim sum’ bond market, and considers some of the traditional investment strategies that are no longer relevant in today’s volatile markets.
June 20, 2012 Category: Investment
Robert Lang, Managing Director, HSBC Insurance Businesses Hong Kong
The HSBC brand has long focused on Asia and other emerging markets to secure strong and sustainable growth; in 2010 for example, Hong Kong alone contributed five percent of the group’s profits. Robert Lang discusses how HSBC Insurance is responding to the challenges presented by the still thriving city-state.
November 7, 2011 Category: Insurance & Pensions
David Fried, Group GM and Group Head of Insurance, HSBC
We talk to HSBC Insurance’s David Fried on the company’s status as one of the world’s leading bancassurers, its work in emerging markets, and how it plans to develop its products for the world’s aging population.
October 27, 2010 Category: Insurance & Pensions