In the office of Hengjin Investment, Lin Zuhui heard about the '10 billion' plan. There is no trace of the family office participating in this plan. At present, Lin Zuhui has completely separated the family office and Hengjin Investment, and the two have nothing to do with each other.
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To be honest, Lin Zuhui is not very confident about the management of the family office and Hengjin Investment. Of course, in theory, they are reliable. After all, this is a capitalist society, capital is king, and Lin Zuhui is their god.
Moreover, as his wealth grows, Lin Zuhui will have more and more ways to hide and protect it. The most direct and best way is to 'distribute' a generous amount of wealth to each concubine; at the same time,
Run the base camp of Xiangjiang.
Therefore, Lin Zuhui still does not have the feeling of "can't sleep because of too much money".
George from Hengjin Investment reported: "Boss, all the stocks have been bought and there has been no change..."
Lin Zuhui nodded. A large part of the 10 billion stocks purchased this time was used in health care and banking stocks; the funds for buying the Internet were less because many Internet stocks that Lin Zuhui was familiar with were not listed at all and may still be in their infancy.
, such as Yahoo, Amazon (already registered shopping mall), eBay, etc., the only ones listed are: America Online, Cisco, etc.
After listening to the report, Lin Zuhui said: "After buying these stocks, there is no need to operate them. This is a long-term investment for me, so you don't need to care. The price of oil has fallen to a low recently. I plan to buy crude oil futures. You can do it for me."
George immediately asked: "How much capital does the boss plan to buy and how much leverage does he use?"
Lin Zuhui said: "Just 500 million Hong Kong dollars, plus ten times the leverage, and just report to me at any time regarding operations!"
"OK!"
Futures have a delivery date, so they are far more difficult to operate than foreign exchange. Once delivered, the advantage of the trend that Lin Zuhui knows is gone. For example, buying New York crude oil futures at a price of 14 US dollars, assuming that the price is 15 US dollars per day.
Barrels, you have indeed made money, but it will be difficult for you to operate next. After all, if you continue to buy, crude oil futures may fall temporarily, and if it hits $13.6, you may be liquidated.
Of course, if it falls to 13.6 US dollars per barrel, then you must continue to buy; after all, you think it is bullish, so such a drop can be considered an opportunity.
Of course, generally speaking, Lin Zuhui is just taking advantage of this wave of rising oil prices, and does not intend to make much money.
If you really want to speculate in crude oil futures, you have to open a position for short selling before January 1997. Due to the Asian financial crisis, crude oil futures plummeted from 1997 to 1998.
After all, the Asian financial crisis means that the demand for oil has decreased, and it is understandable that the price of crude oil has halved.
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Wall Street.
Lin Zuhui came to Goldman Sachs Investment Bank and was warmly received by its CEO Whitehead. Almost everyone in the capital world knows Lin Zuhui, the world's richest man, but what is more important is Lin Zuhui's legendary experience and mystery.
Although his wealth is mainly distributed in Hong Kong, Lin Zuhui's methods of building New Era Group have always been regarded as textbooks by Wall Street. It is difficult to imagine that in less than ten years, Lin Zuhui developed a small real estate company into
It has become a huge empire with a market value of US$23 billion.
In addition, in the past two years, Lin Zuhui's two major projects in Manhattan and London have attracted even more attention.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Whited said with a smile: "Mr. Lin's achievements in the past two years are remarkable and worth learning from!"
Lin Zuhui has heard a lot of such flattery and has long been at ease with it.
So he said modestly: "Those two investments have not changed yet, so they are not considered achievements. On the contrary, they are century-old companies like Goldman Sachs, which are worthy of our study and reference."
Whitehead will naturally not underestimate Lin Zuhui. Although the two investment projects currently have no book profits, they have undoubtedly seen a "turnaround"; for example, the eight skyscrapers in Manhattan have turned around because the U.S. economy has begun to recover this year; and London's gold
The Canary Wharf project is a turning point from the fact that the London Underground extension project has been approved and is ready to start.
"Mr. Lin came to us for cooperation this time. Could it be that he is interested in another project?" Whited asked.
Lin Zuhui nodded with a smile and said: "Goldman Sachs is an investment bank with good reputation, so I really hope to cooperate this time. We want to enter the retail commercial real estate in the United States, and I hope that Goldman Sachs will serve as an investment consulting and advisory company. I think
Doesn’t this violate the ‘anti-hostile takeover’ strategy that Goldman Sachs has always established?”
There are extreme investment banks on Wall Street. One is Morgan Stanley, which specialized in hostile takeovers in the 1970s and 1980s, and then achieved record-breaking income. The other is Goldman Sachs, which adopted a completely different policy and refused to accept hostile takeovers.
Instead of providing services to the victims, Goldman Sachs would protect the victims. This gave Goldman Sachs a great influence during this period and made it famous on Wall Street in one fell swoop.
The so-called protection of Goldman Sachs does not mean that it does not make money, but that it allows the 'hostile acquirer' to pay more. For example, if Company A wants to acquire Company B in a hostile manner, and Company B turns to Goldman Sachs for help, then Goldman Sachs will find a 'white warrior' and raise money for Company B.
Stock price. There are two results. First, White Warrior joins company B to defeat Company A; second, due to the price increase of White Warrior and Goldman Sachs, Company B sells itself to Company A at a sky-high price, and all shareholders are happy.
Whited smiled and said: "Mr. Lin is joking, you will definitely not take over a company in the United States with malicious intent. I can definitely imagine that. So, does Mr. Lin want to acquire several shopping malls, or a retail business company?"
Lin Zuhui said: "We want to build a retail business brand in Europe and the United States, so we want to quickly establish this brand by acquiring existing shopping malls, renovating, packaging, and attracting investment. However, we hope to enter the market quickly, so we hope to purchase 10~
20 shopping malls.”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Whited couldn't help but admire Lin Zuhui for his young age, but his skills are surprisingly big. This is a big investment!
"So, does Mr. Lin have any requirements for these shopping malls? For example, location, city, etc.!"
Lin Zuhui said matter-of-factly: "Of course, it must be located on the east and west coast of the United States. It is best to be packaged and sold by one or two companies. As for the location of the shopping mall, this needs specific consideration, but our shopping mall is considered
Gather regionally instead of opening shopping malls in gathering places. Because of this, parking lots are very important."
Whitehead nodded. In his opinion, Lin Zuhui was a real estate expert and the most legendary figure in this field.
"No problem, we will quickly find a suitable partner for you."
"ok"
Lin Zuhui was just here to take the lead, and then handed it over to his subordinates to communicate with Goldman Sachs. He would only come to review it when there was a suitable target.
Over the years, Lin Zuhui himself has gained considerable experience in understanding and operating shopping malls. In Lin Zuhui's view, the newly hatched 'Amazon' shopping mall will have many advantages and its competitiveness in the United States will not be low.
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Overall, Lin Zuhui pays more attention to five points:
First, the four roads are well developed and parking is convenient;
Second, introduce informatization and intelligent management;
Third, a unified brand can enhance the brand’s influence;
Fourth, understand the local consumption level and then attract targeted investment;
Fifth, establish a deep cooperative relationship with a few specific brands, sign long-term cooperation agreements (low rent), and even sign a system for returning the rent as the business increases. Of course, this is a discount that only a few brands can enjoy.
The main thing is to consider drainage.
Of course, the above is just talk on paper, and the actual implementation depends on the team.
Xiangjiang's retail and commercial real estate team is naturally rich in experience, but not all of them may be suitable for European and American models; therefore, the follow-up can only be used as a reference.
The most important thing is to incubate the Amazon shopping mall brand and start over.
But then again, the most important thing for the success of a shopping mall is 'timing'; if it is the period when Internet shopping is developed (after 2015), then everything will be cloudy, including shopping malls in Europe and the United States will be affected; the timing of bargain hunting will also be
It is very important, so this time Lin Zuhui will spend about 1 billion US dollars at a time, striving to establish the important position of retail commercial real estate in the United States in one fell swoop.
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In early November, Lin Zuhui returned to Hong Kong. This trip to the United States took nearly half a month. Because Lin Zixia gave birth to a son and Qiu Shuzhen gave birth to a daughter, Lin Zuhui stayed in Los Angeles for nearly 10 days.
If there are any work reports during this period, they are all commanded remotely through the phone. With Lin Zuhui's delegation of power, contracts of less than one billion Hong Kong dollars do not require his signature, and the group president Chen Bin will complete it for him.
New Era Group.
Lin Zuhui was moving around casually in the office. He just returned to Hong Kong yesterday and found that he didn't have much work after returning. He briefly communicated with the senior management in the morning and straightened things out.
When he first started working in real estate, he liked to go to every real estate project for unannounced visits and was worried about the contractors and contractors. Now, the builders are all their own companies, and the management systems have been improved, so he doesn't go to the construction site so frequently.
In recent years, the construction field of New Era Group has also developed very smoothly. Many of its buildings are built by them and they have learned a lot of experience. Including projects in the mainland, Baohua Construction has participated in them, participating in and supervising the construction.
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Standing in front of the office window, you can have an unobstructed view of the Convention and Exhibition Square and Victoria Harbour. It is the tallest office building in Hong Kong. It feels really good. However, after all, this is Wan Chai, so it is still a bit inferior.
Although the rent in Central is expensive, it is the most popular place for all business owners to rent, because it is a symbol of strength and credibility; this is also true for powerful foreign companies.
Therefore, the New Era Group headquarters will have to move in the future to a building above the Airport Railway Terminal, which faces Victoria Harbor and faces Tsim Sha Tsui across the sea. The important thing is that it can be higher and occupy the tallest building in Hong Kong again.
"Dongdong"
Yuan Tianfan came to Lin Zuhui's office. He was the president of Hengchang Holdings. His office was in Building 9, Central Avenue. Lin Zuhui also fully delegated power to him and rarely went there to interfere.
"Boss, we won the bid for the landline phone franchise!" Yuan Tianfan said calmly while sitting on the sofa.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "As expected, the other two are Hutchison Whampoa and Wharf, right?"
Yuan Tianfan said: "Well, there is no accident, it's just the three of us."
There is no doubt about Hengchang Holdings' technology and strength in telecommunications. Over the years of operation, it has invested a lot of money to develop the telecommunications industry in the UK and Hong Kong.
Lin Zuhui asked again: "How many customers does the British orange company have?"
Yuan Tianfan said with a joyful face: "There are almost 150,000 households. I heard that Hutchison Communications is interested in our digital cellular communication network and plans to launch this business in the near future. It has given up on ct2 in September."
After hearing this, Lin Zuhui thought about it. Currently, there are two British companies and two Hong Kong companies in British Telecom's mobile network business, which are relatively willing to invest. The mobile network market (mobile phones and paging) is still in its initial stage and requires a lot of funds.
Invest in base stations and build service networks.
It is not a fixed-line telephone network, so many countries are open. Foreign companies can purchase its licenses to operate this industry. For example, the British government will issue several 3G licenses at one time, and each one will be sold for dozens of dollars.
The government has made a lot of money from license fees worth US$100 million.
Times Communications did not spend much on the CT2 license, because the industry had just sprouted at that time. But the investment in the past few years has been huge. Times Communications has spent about 3 billion Hong Kong dollars on this, almost a year
It will cost 1 billion.
What are the results in exchange? There are 150,000 British customers and 60,000 Hong Kong customers. There are only 210,000 mobile phone customers in total. Hong Kong has begun to make a profit, but the profit is not enough to cover the British telecommunications expenses.
Lin Zuhui said: "Leading one step at a time, if you take more care of the British telecommunications business, it is not impossible that the company may make hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars in profits in a few years. This is the uniqueness of emerging industries. He does not
How much profit you need depends on how many customers you have."
Yuan Tianfan suddenly felt a little unbelievable. It took him a long time to react and said: "Don't worry, boss, I will try my best to develop the British telecommunications industry and strive to exceed 300,000 households next year."
Giving employees chicken blood injections all the time is Lin Zuhui’s trick, so he said: “This emerging industry will suddenly surge, so 300,000 households will not be a problem next year. With the popularity of mobile phones, it will be very easy for everyone to have one.
The quickest thing to do is think about how big the market is. So if you develop British Telecom well and get more customers, you can immediately arrange a listing to get cash back and continue to develop."
Yuan Tianfan suddenly knew something. He even thought that if Hutchison Communications also developed, could he bring the two companies together for merger and development at a certain time?
"Okay, I know!"
The fixed telephone network franchise that Hong Kong won this time is one of the four fixed telecommunications networks in Hong Kong. Times Communications' plan is to invest 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars (investment in installments) to provide telephone, data, fax, and
A full range of video and dedicated computer services, as well as 'personal number' services for the general public.
Since Times Communications has invested in the telecommunications industry in the early stage, compared with Wharf, it has a certain number of mobile phone and fax customers and has technical support from British Telecom.