404 - thx for reply. Not asking for investment advice per se. Please bear with me as I do invest myself.
I am always on the look out, as I'm sure you are, for investments across all the four asset classes that meet my personal investment criteria for liquidity, safety of principle, ROR and any tax advantage that may ensue.
In HK the "cash equivalent" asset class products of structured notes and others are limited (the buy-in amounts are generally not a problem for me).
I am interested in hearing of "leads" that I can do my own research against and make my own decision whether to invest or not, eg would you know who I can buy the Vanguard S&P 500 tracking fund through in HK ? It seems that I can't do it via HSBC Premier or their offshore investment house.
I see a lot of value in that type of information exchange via this thread. And it could be educational for those lurkers who wish to learn about investing.
I've found that the most difficult thing to find is good advice (by which I mean "leads" for research) from the right advisors NOT sales people - who generally pedal the diversified mutual fund/quarterly asset rebalancing twaddle. I recall from seeing past postings of yours that you are aware of the FSI b/s and pitfalls.
For yourself, I've had good success with this:
http://www.moneymanagement.com.au/Ar..._0c041330.html
As a rule I don't buy into hedge funds because of their high costs. However this one has been good to me over the last 5 yrs, cost structure is attractive and liquidity high.