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Taking the sophisticated route myself, I bought shares in a China mutual fund in my typical fashion: invest before you investigate. A recent trip to Hong Kong gave me the chance to do the latter, so the first thing I did when I got back home was to sell my China holdings, such as they were. Everybody in Hong Kong thinks China has a great future. It's the Chinese companies you have to worry about...
...great pals, sharing family vacations in Spain. So entwined were the couples that for a time, Schulhof's son dated Guber's daughter. Guber was finally pushed out in late September, but he exited smiling. He reportedly pocketed $40 million in cash and received a commitment from Sony to invest an additional $200 million in his new production company...
...Japanese, there is probably a lesson in all these debacles about not + getting stuck on labels. But for Americans, there is also a cautionary tale in drawing pompous conclusions about the nation's economic security when a few Japanese companies invest in premier American properties. When the Japanese did just that in the late 1980s, investment banker Felix Rohatyn wrote, "What is at stake is not only the loss of our position as the leader of the Western democracies, but the loss of our independence of action both in economic and in foreign policy." Turns out it was just about...
Investigate before you invest in a Chinese company...
Asia's new willingness to invest in long-term research reflects not just its recent economic boom but also a radical shift in social outlook. "Thirty years ago, when the average person needed rice and bread, who could talk about science?" asks Weichen Tien, head of the Development Center for Biotechnology in Taipei. "Today science is viewed as a necessity...