Dr. Zenki Kwan, our MFin Alumni delivered a professional seminar on “Sail Through COVID-19 Crisis – Emerging Trends and Key Takeaway” on May 11, 2020 (Monday) via Zoom.

The speaker shared some trends emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and the key takeaway from this unprecedented crisis from both investment and non-investment perspectives.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Kwan is currently the investment director of a listed company and a single-family office in Hong Kong, responsible for designing and implementing strategy, as well as overseeing its multi-billion investment portfolio across equities, fixed income, currency, funds and structured product. Besides portfolio management, Dr. Kwan is also involved in the M&A and business management functions of the listed company. Prior to his current role, Dr. Kwan was the vice-president of private equity division in Finsoft Financial Investment Holdings, and spent his earlier career in McKinsey, Samsung Securities, UBS and J.P. Morgan from being a management consultant, equity researcher to corporate finance banker.

Dr. Kwan earned his Doctor of Business Administration (majoring in finance) degree from SBS Swiss Business School, Switzerland. He completed executive education programs in Harvard Law School and University of Oxford Saïd Business School, and holds two Master Degrees – Master of Finance (majoring in financial engineering and risk management) from HKU, and Master of Applied Business Research. He also graduated with a first-class honor degree in business administration (finance and information systems) from HKUST and received Beta Gamma Sigma honor. Dr. Kwan is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and a Certified Banker (CB).

Dr. Kwan is passionate in education, learning, and writing. He is the columnist of Metro Daily and the co-author of investing book which is available at Harvard Business School library. In addition, he is an adjunct lecturer of University of South Australia and HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, teaching investment management and financial engineering related subjects for their MBA and other postgraduate programs.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Pauline Hui at 3962 1489 or huicw@hku.hk . Thank you.

Event Recap

The Faculty Mentorship Programme 2019-20 runs from October 2019 to August 2020.  The Programme aims to provide students with opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge essential for future career development through direct and active one-on-one interaction with seasoned professionals, executives and/or entrepreneurs. 

Through this platform, our students are empowered to:
·               learn from the achievements and experience of seasoned professionals (i.e. mentors);
·               understand the expectation of their potential employers and develop essential skills employers look for;
·               extend their business and personal networks;
·               establish their career and personal goals through the advice of their mentors; and
·               connect to the real business world.

Once mentors and mentees are paired up, they are free to organise their own meetings. Mentors and mentees are free to keep contact after their participating year based on their own wish and mutual understandings.  The Faculty does not have rules governing the minimum number of hour mentors and mentees should meet but we encourage students to take the initiative to arrange regular meetings and/or keep regular contact with their mentors in their participating year. 

  The Faculty of Business and Economics Graduation Ceremony of the HKU 202nd Congregation will be held with details as follows:

We will be announcing the guest ticket registration details in early October. For more information of the Graduation Ceremony, stay tuned with us on our social media and this website. About the loan of academic dress and certificate collection, please refer to the HKU Congregation website.

Date:          June 20-21, 2019 (Thursday & Friday)
Venue:       KK 315, 3/F, K.K. Leung Building, HKU
Language: English

Details & Registration: https://www.hkubs.hku.hk/conference/pcc/index.html
Enquiry: fbecomm@hku.hk

All are welcome. Registration is free of charge. Seats are limited and are offered on a first come, first served basis.

Continuing our effort to strengthen the quality of our teaching, we are delighted to invite colleagues to attend the two-day HKU Case Teaching Workshop on 12-13 Jun 2019.

This two-day workshop aims at helping faculty develop and improve their case teaching skills. The workshop will be conducted by Professor Chen Shih-fen. Professor Chen has 20 years of experience teaching case studies at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels, both in North America and Asia. He will leverage his experience and background to cover many of the unique challenges faculty face when teaching cases in Asia. Over 7,000 faculty from leading business school across the globe have already attended Professor Chen’s teaching workshops.

We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity and attend this two-day workshop if able. Please visit our ACRC website for more details. You can register using the below link on or before 1 Jun 2019. 

Follow this link to the registration form: 
Register Now!

Contact us: workshop@acrc.hku.hk

Date:          March 21, 2019 (Thursday) 
Time:         4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue:       Convocation Room, 2/F, Main Building, HKU
Language: English

Registration: http://www.hkubs.hku.hk/go/FSDC2019
Enquiries: Mr. Jacky Tsang (Email: fbecomm@hku.hk)

About the seminar:

The global economy underwent substantial changes, and the rise of FinTech has brought in new financial institutions providing financial services to a large number of customers and investors, as well as changing the ways banks and corporations interact with their clients and each other.

Technology is shaping the asset management industry, and has the potential to transform processes, operations and systems, creating something different for future generations to enjoy. As asset management enters the 21st century, technology will become mission critical to drive customer engagement, data mining for information on clients and potential clients, operational efficiency and regulatory and tax reporting. 

In this session, our distinguished speakers will share their views and many years of experience in asset management, to discuss the industry’s current landscape and what drives transformations; and how young graduates should prepare themselves for a career in the financial services sector to cope with the new economy.

Speakers:

Dr. AU King-lun 
Chief Executive Officer, Value Partners Group Limited; Board Member, Financial Services Development Council, Hong Kong

Mr. Henry CHAN, CPA
Chief Investment Officer, BEA Union Investment Management Limited

Prof. Dragon TANG (Professor of Finance; Area Head of Finance; Associate Director, Centre for Financial Innovation and Development) will give a welcome speech.

All are welcome. Registration is free of charge. Seats are limited and are available on a a first come, first served basis.