If you are newbie in stock then you should read up stuffs on shares investment first and have a sense of the market and understand the terminologies, rather than plunging straight into opening a brokerage account.

As starters, you need to read books, not articles. Articles are just for updates for more intermediate investors.

Try Google "good books on investing"

https://www.google.com/search?q=good+books+on+investing

I have a PDF version of "The little book of Common Sense Investing", can't share here though (PM might work?)

If you want a hardcore style introduction, which I think a newbie should take up, a university-style finance textbook works the best.

https://www.mheducation.com/highered/produc...1260013832.html (It does not matter which edition, 8th and above should be fine, I use the 10th version, the textbook version of my uni's finance course)

Ping An 3Q results: https://group.pingan.com/resource/pingan/IR...resentation.pdf

(News below in Traditional Chinese)

https://finance.mingpao.com/fin/instantf/20...%b3%a2%e5%8b%95

Link REIT to purchase 3 retail properties in Australia.

Announcement: https://www.linkreit.com/linkcorp/api/v1/fi...57056c9d5ba1619

Press release: https://www.linkreit.com/en/media/news/link...ear=&category=1

Presentation slides: https://www.linkreit.com/linkcorp/api/v1/fi...93308fa783bd3d6

Report by 香港明报: https://finance.mingpao.com/fin/instantf/20...%95%86%e5%a0%b4

This post has been edited by TOS: Nov 7 2021, 07:49 PM

Link ok lah. Not predominantly chinese capital. It is a HK "pure-play" old economy counter.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/0823.HK/holders/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_REIT

lol HK property price high has nothing to do with this acquisition lah

From what I see, this is purely commercial decision, to diversify their asset base in other markets. I doubt they will have much hurdles, last year or 2 years ago they bought 100 market street in Australia, no hurdles I recall.

This post has been edited by TOS: Nov 8 2021, 10:06 PM

Oh you are referring to Sydney ok ok. Misread it earlier. Sorry.

Chinese relationship with Australia has gone through ups and downs in the past, not just recently. I still feel Link has a chance, if you are predominantly mainland chinese capital then you will have more issues meddling with the Australian regulators. I shared a link earlier, its capital base mostly foreign institutions. Anyway, will see.

Link REIT financial results

Press release: https://www.linkreit.com/en/media/news/soli...anic-growth-171

Announcement: https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconew...21111000303.pdf

Financial highlights: https://www.linkreit.com/linkcorp/api/v1/fi...r%202021_EN.pdf

Presentation slides: https://www.linkreit.com/linkcorp/api/v1/fi...247d55e02bb349d

This post has been edited by TOS: Nov 10 2021, 12:49 PM

Tencent 3Q results:

Announcement: https://static.www.tencent.com/uploads/2021...e47d6e7dca1.pdf

Press release: https://static.www.tencent.com/uploads/2021...f9ca9ec3dcb.pdf

Results highlights: https://mmbiz.qpic.cn/mmbiz_jpg/sggLMUluuuT..._lazy=1&wx_co=1

Presentation slides: https://www.tencent.com/attachments/toolkit...resentation.pdf

This post has been edited by TOS: Nov 10 2021, 09:42 PM

NetEase 3Q results: https://ir.netease.com/

Baba earnings out from HKEX announcement portal: https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconew...21111800841.pdf

Financial statements can be found towards the end of the PDF document.

Presentation slides: https://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/presenta...s/pre211118.pdf

This post has been edited by TOS: Nov 18 2021, 09:03 PM

https://finance.mingpao.com/fin/instantf/20...9f%e8%83%bdfail

[Column in traditional Chinese]

Good comment. I like the last line.



"Honestly speaking, if not for the retailers who are willing to buy in the secondary market, how can the institutional investors harvest their profits in the first place?"

Not that related to HK shares, but story from HK i-banks trading floor.

https://finance.mingpao.com/fin/instantf/20...%85%ac%e5%b9%b3

*Girls don't read this.

The article mainly concerns with gender equality. MNCs these days are making funny requirements, i.e. same number of male and female in the final selection for job interviews. But what if you have 16 males and 4 females competing for 4 positions (i.e. 2 for males, 2 for females)? The success rate becomes 50% for females, but only 12.5% for males.

In another case, the author's friend, Samantha, a finance-related lawyer, is asked to choose 5 females and 5 males from 22 females and 8 males candidates.

Certain jobs by nature are excelled by certain gender, and the author is questioning whether the "gender equality" requirement has become too strict and overinterpreted.

This post has been edited by TOS: Dec 9 2021, 02:59 PM

https://finance.mingpao.com/fin/instantf/20...%b9%a3%e3%80%8d

Joe Tsai dares to part ways with CCP. CCP says no to crypto. He says he likes crypto.

https://finance.mingpao.com/fin/instantf/20...%8d%81%e5%a4%a7

You lost a lot on Baba/Tencent?

For HK bank account, you need to be a HK resident to open it (work here or study here).

Same for HK brokerage account with HK bank. You are better off with non-bank brokers and even them mainly cater to day traders and charge very high fees for HK markets.

There is Moomoo (Futu HK) which is popular here however, but you can access it via Futu SG.

Hmm maybe you are new to IBKR. There is only one IBKR, you can open different account types like individual account, join account etc. The account is based in one location depending on where you open it. If you open it originally in Malaysia, then it's based in the US. If you transfer in from TradeStation Global, then it's based in the UK.

In any case, if you have an individual account with IBKR, you can buy securities from all over the world. So you can buy HK shares/bonds/ETFs etc. from your Malaysia IBKR account. You don't need to open "HK" IBKR account. You can't do that since you are not based in HK anyway, no HK address, no HK bank account, no stay permit/visa etc. (I presume you are not in HK.)

As for your first question. whether a broker is safe depends on a lot of factors. The execution of the broker, the profitability of the broker (margins), balance sheet, cash flows, business model, regulations, market share etc. Banks can fail in crisis, let alone brokers.

If the broker is listed, have a look at the financial statements to have a sense of the broker's financial conditions before you decide to open an account. Look for past history of incidents/litigations if available (even IBKR is not spared from them). That way, you can tell if one broker is a "safer" choice than the others.

So, it does mean that attaching to one bank makes the brokerage account safer. More often than not, banks provide such service to complement their business "ecosystem" and make money within their ecosystem. So they have high charges for trading securities than stand-alone brokers like IBKR.

I am no expert in political and legislative stuff. If you need a Chinese-based broker, I don't think there is any option for you since you are not a HK/Chinese resident. You will have to fork out more money to buy via local brokers and local banks then. Futu and Tiger are not for you, they are listed brokers in the US itself. If you are HNWI, then private banks will sort things out for you.

500k USD includes all US listed shares whether they are of Chinese origin or not. https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects

You can still strike a balance by buying Chinese/HK equities via local brokers and invest in the rest of the world via IBKR/Futu/Tiger/Saxo/POEMS/FSM etc. if you like.

But political-wise, I don't think the decoupling will happen to that extent. At most, the delisted shares will be relisted elsewhere or privatized. You will still get your money back provided no corporate frauds like Luckin's Coffee case occur.

https://www.sinchew.com.my/20220129/%e4%bc%...8f%af%e8%a7%82/

There might be "positive surprise" in the liaising efforts between the China and the US on regulatory oversight issues for Chinese companies listed in New York, according to sources.

Could expect good news in June or earlier.

This post has been edited by TOS: Feb 1 2022, 12:42 PM