Vienne Lee’s insights including
1. Case studies and market updates to help students improve their Mandarin communication skills in finance and business contexts.
2. Success stories of executives who have benefited from Vienne Lee's coaching, such as Mark Machin from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board improving his Mandarin proficiency.
3. Examples of high-profile clients, including Fidelity Hong Kong, ABN AMRO, and JPMorgan executives receiving media coaching and Mandarin training.
4. Insights on China's financial market developments, including Hong Kong-mainland financial integration and the role of Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) in leveraging China connections.
5. Coverage of industry events, such as the "Hong Kong: Financing Asia's Growth" forum featuring HKEX CEO Nicolas Aguzin.
6. Commentary on current financial trends, like ESG investing and the appointment of sustainability officers in major investment firms.
7. Practical applications of Mandarin skills in business settings, such as moderating panel discussions and participating in industry events.
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今年迎来了香港回归25周年,内地金融行业改革开放以及内地和香港资本市场双向开放取得的成果大家有目共睹。作为一名金融行业从业者,我曾经在香港工作,并且随着公司的业务发展而有机会来到上海工作,接下来我会根据自身从业经历,和大家分享一下过去二十几年间,我在两地金融互通开放层面感受到的深刻发展变化。
Congratulations 🥳 🎉 Fidelity Hong Kong’s Asian Bond Fund won the three-year overseas China Bond Golden Bull Fund 🏆
Senan Yuen, CIO, Fidelity China 🇨🇳 Media Coaching with Vienne Lee
Vienne Lee, the CEO and Program Director of Finance Mandarin, with alumni from a Dutch Bankers Group, ABN AMRO.
Deborah Orida is appointed as the first Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) for CPP Investment. She is responsible for the approach to environmental, social and governance matters, particularly climate change.
The Real Julien Bernard 👍👍👍
Finance Mandarin is glad to work with the French asset management company. With €1.729 trillion of assets under management (AUM) at the end of 2020, one of the 10 biggest investment managers by AUM in the world. After so many months of remote video Chinese lessons, it is a pleasure to meet the real Julien in person.
Mark Machin, Toronto-based president of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, says his aim in learning Mandarin is to be able to have good conversations with people and to be able to read relevant Chinese language articles.
"The benefits [of learning Mandarin] are a better understanding of the news and context from Greater China,” he says.
Machin started learning Mandarin in 2012 and maintains a working relationship with Finance Mandarin to improve his Mandarin proficiency. Before taking on his current role in Toronto, the pension’s helmsman was most recently CPPIB’s Hong Kong-based senior managing director and head of international.
Vienne Lee was authorized to be the English-Mandarin Simultaneous Interpreter for Yu Hua and Kevin Drew at CNN, 2008. Vienne was excited to share the Chinese culture by redefining the values and meaning of the book “To Live” ; 《活着 huó zhe》, by 余华 Yúhuá。
Eddy Wong, Managing Director, JP Morgan, was the moderator in Business Mandarin at the HKIFA event on 30 Oct 2015. This event had 300 participants from Asset Managment giants, regulators, HKSAR govt, HKEX, SFC, public media and certainly industry players. Blackrock, Fidelity, Invesco, Schroder, Manulife, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Life, Principal, KPMG, PcW, EY... all were present.
“ I don’t anticipate a significant shift in our strategy around being ‘China anchored’. China is a very strategic advantage that HKEX has, and we should leverage it to the maximum as possible”. ——Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of HKEX
With the coronavirus outbreak making constant headlines these days it can be a little bit overwhelming trying to decide when to go to the doctor for other smaller issues. One has to ask themselves, “is it worth going to the doctor to fix a small problem, while at the same time risking getting infected with a larger problem?”
“Money Games” is a riveting tale of one of the most successful buyout deals ever: the acquisition and turnaround of what used to be Korea's largest bank by the American firm Newbridge Capital.
“The best years of Hong Kong are ahead of us”, stated Aguzin.
On the 15th July 2021, the Finance Mandarin team joined the “Hong Kong: Financing Asia’s Growth” forum held by Asia Society Hong Kong. The VIP speaker for the event was Nicolas Aguzin, the CEO of HKEX, and moderated by Ronnie Chan, the Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited.
The relationship between Hong Kong and China
The greater the Shenzhen and Shanghai do, the greater the Hong Kong performs. Hong Kong’s prospect is closely related to the development of Shenzhen and Shanghai. Mr. Aguzin stated that Hong Kong must work closely together to create vibrancy in the market to bring fortune and prosperity to the people.
Insights from Li:
✔️ Next Potential Global Trend: Cashless Society
✔️ Worth discussion in the Finance Industry: Is it an opportunity or a challenge?
✔️ China 🇨🇳, and Hong Kong could lead the trend of cashless payments to the world if preparation is done
✔️ More small businesses (Labour Entrepreneurship) may lead in China
Since China signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, President Xi Jinping has repeatedly mentioned China's green and sustainable goals for 2030 and 2060 in the conference. In 2030, China will achieve a carbon peak, and in 2060, China will achieve carbon neutrality.
Finance Mandarin helps Grace in 100 hours 1-1 Finance Mandarin and Media Coaching.
Who is Grace Hui?
Grace Hui is the Managing Director and Head of Green and Sustainable Finance at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX). She heads HKEX’s green and sustainable finance development program, driving the development of sustainable market-based solutions.
Pitching in Mandarin is not easy. But where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Philippe El-Asmar, of J.P. Morgan:
✅ Why does Philippe believe in China’s success?
✅ Why does he choose to work in China?
✅ Why does he encourage his 5 kids to learn Chinese?
Mark Machin is the Former President & Chief Executive Officer at CPP Investments.
Recognized globally as an example of sound pension plan management, CPP Investments is guided by an independent Board of Directors, operates at arm’s length from federal or provincial governments, and is managed independently from the CPP itself.
He has been learning Finance Mandarin 1-1 with Vienne Lee since 2013.
Top 10 Themes That Will Define the Future of Asset and Wealth Management
1) Price
2) Scale is a matter of survival
3) Actively advising clients
4) Impact and purpose
We may attribute the success of ByteDance to Bytedance’ artificial intelligence (AI) application and machine learning. As of November 2018, ByteDance had over 800 million daily active users (over 1 billion accumulated users) across all of its content platforms. The valuation of ByteDance was approaching USD 400 billion in 2021.
“ I don’t have a teacher that gives me immediate responses.”
*Alexander Bryan, a C-suite English speaker working in the capital market, frustrated when he first tried to study on his own.
Alex is highly motivated to learn Mandarin even before joining Finance Mandarin. He had tried studying by himself. But soon he acknowledged the drawbacks of it, he did not know whether he is doing right on the pronunciations and usages of the vocabularies. There is no one to correct his pronunciations. Besides, he can only learn a few words but they are not for business purposes!
WIN-WIN: Business Models for Transforming Customer Relationships.
FOUR Connected Strategies to establish long-lasting relationships with clients:
✔️ Respond to Desire
✔️ Curated Offering
✔️ Coach Behaviour
✔️ Automatic Execution