“We really need to put this into context globally,” says Jason Brady, CEO of Thornburg Investment Management, who cites how the common flu kills more people in the United States annually alone compared to the current novel coronavirus.
Genome sequencing studies suggest that the novel coronavirus came from a single source in Wuhan around October to November 2019, says Paul Tambyah from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Taiwan is no longer “a sleeping tiger”, says Steven Pan of Silks Hotel Group, who discusses how its economy has benefited over the past year from reelect President Tsai Ing-wen’s pro-growth policy and the decoupling of the U.S.-China trade war.
Takao Yasuda of Pan Pacific International Holdings, Don Quijote and Don Don Donki says staff at its stores are given autonomy in making decisions such as what products are carried and the prices which they are sold at.
Michael Bennett of the World Bank says catastrophe bonds can be a “very attractive asset class” for investors who understand the risks and have insurance modelling capabilities.
Simon Shen of University of Hong Kong says the “root cause” of the protests in Hong Kong appear to be the structural issues of the One Country, Two Systems framework, rather than housing policies.
Edith Yeung of Proof of Capital says the Chinese government has been “really thoughtful” about the digital currency electronic payment framework and its rollout. She says it will “definitely” be deployed within the next six to 12 months.