Chapter 48: Henry's Toil (3)

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"Peter, you've got a good solution!" asked Henry, standing up in surprise.

"That's a good solution, little case, there's a genius mind, it's sharp!" Peter said proudly.

"Okay, you're a genius, don't be a fool, and tell me that your genius is a good solution!" Henry urged.

For the small jump to show off, I have been immune for many years. However, Henry still has considerable expectations for Peter's brain.

Looking at Henry's anxious and expectant gaze, Peter's arrogant attitude was satisfied. didn't delay his efforts, and poured out his ideas and countermeasures to Henry.

"The focus is on providing foreign investment information, sometimes supplemented by local investment information in Hong Kong, and the two are corresponding to different investment groups. Henry listened to Peter's thoughts, pondered to himself, and muttered to himself.

"Foreign investment information", "investment funds", "financial media", "Hong Kong investment group" Henry kept muttering repeatedly.

Suddenly, the brain hole opened, and the inspiration came up. I couldn't help but blurt out:

Peter, "Foreign Investment Information" and "Hong Kong's Investment Community" are combined with the Gold No. 1 Investment Fund and the "Lookout" financial weekly, what does it represent?

What did the representation form? Peter is very little at the heart of the economy, so he is not very bright.

Seeing that Peter had not yet understood. At this time, Henry, who was in high spirits, did not forget the boast that Peter showed off just now, and said:

"Peter, you're too sluggish! What a genius mind can't even comprehend such an obvious hint. ”

"Oh, what does that mean?" Peter looked at Henry innocently, he still didn't understand what Henry's words meant.

Henry was defeated by Peter's innocent eyes. Touching his forehead, he reluctantly explained the connection to Henry:

"This is a vertical investment industry chain! Imagine that today we have relatively accurate foreign investment information, investment channels and investment capabilities of funds. In addition, the publicity of the cooperative media and the financial weekly "Lookout" has guided the integration of Hong Kong's investment community. ”

"Oh, what you hinted at is this, the vertical investment industry chain! I don't study economics, how can I think of this, the vertical investment industry chain of Rausch!" Peter finally understood what Henry meant.

"However, the vertical investment industry chain you mentioned, the financial media node in it, with the scale and influence of the current "Lookout" financial weekly, simply cannot reach the ability to publicize and guide the integration of Hong Kong's investment group!" Peter diverged his thinking and saw the problem.

Henry: Indeed, the scale and influence of the current "Lookout" financial weekly do not meet the requirements of the investment industry chain node that we envisioned for the time being.

But who made "Lookout" magazine a confidante of Andrew, created by Ms. Catherine, with an extraordinary background!

As long as there is capital investment, the issue of expanding the scale of the "Lookout" magazine is a trivial matter. The most troublesome thing is the problem of influence, in order to get the full trust of the investor group, in addition to doing a good job in the financial content of newspapers and periodicals, it also takes time to precipitate the foundation.

In addition, the current "Lookout" Finance is a weekly magazine, and in terms of the timeliness of investment information, it cannot meet the requirements of the financial media nodes in the investment industry chain.

Our Gold No. 1 Investment Fund is an open-ended fund and is required to publish the net asset value of the fund shares on a daily basis. Published in the daily edition of financial publications, this is not only convenient for fund investors to inquire, but also a good measure to reduce the size of the fund's office space.

Therefore, if the "Lookout" magazine wants to fully cooperate with our investment fund, it is necessary to put together a daily version of the financial publication in the short term. This matter still needs to be negotiated with the "Lookout" magazine as soon as possible.

Peter, you are in charge of the promotion and sale of the fund, and you will take over the cooperation with the "Lookout" magazine in the future, and you will be fully responsible. Therefore, you have to think more comprehensively about the matter of putting together a daily version of a financial publication.

The subscription period for our Gold No. 1 Investment Fund is initially expected to be two months. The deadline for a daily edition of the financial publication is the end of March. In more than two months, this goal should be easily accomplished.

As for this daily edition of the financial publication, I would also like to send it as a benefit to investors who buy our Gold No. 1 Investment Fund for free. Therefore, the issue of cost control should also be communicated with the "Lookout" magazine.

That's all for me, Peter, do you have any additional ideas?

Peter: I don't have any ideas for the time being, this lot of things is enough for me to toss for a while, I'll go back and sort out my thoughts first, and then make follow-up arrangements.

Before the end of work the next day, Mr. Bill, the head of the intelligence team, came to Henry's office. Handed in the first copy, Hutchison International's secret investigation information.

According to this secret investigation information, the long-term and short-term over-the-top debts of the entire Hutchison International Group have reached as much as 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars. Not to mention the many hidden small debts in the subordinate companies.

Taken together, it reaches a debt of 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. The annual interest on the debt reached 1.5 Hong Kong dollars.

The annual profit of the entire Hutchison International Group is less than 50 million. It was mainly created by two companies, Hebao Company and Metropolis Real Estate. In other words, if nothing major changes, the entire Hutchison International Group will lose more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars per year.

Moreover, within the entire Hutchison International Group, management is chaotic, discipline is lax, and the atmosphere of corruption and bribery spreads. Although the new general manager Wei Li emphasized internal rectification and the establishment of a scientific financial system. However, in a short period of time, it will not change the fundamental debt interest problem of Hutchison International Group.

The first Hutchison International undercover investigation was mainly aimed at the Hong Kong headquarters and its subsidiaries. As for a large number of overseas subordinate companies, the difficulty factor of conducting the investigation is very high, and the time, manpower, material and financial resources required are quite large.

As for the intelligence on the value of Hutchison International's assets, it is Andrew's private think tank team that is conducting the investigation.

The next morning, Henry arrived at Andrew's top office with the first copy of Hutchison International's secret investigation information.

Henry and Andrew's team of private think tanks came to a preliminary conclusion after exchanging and analyzing both light and dark intelligence.

Today, Hutchison International's assets are estimated to be about HK$3 billion at today's value. Excluding HK$1.5 billion of debt, plus the cost of acquiring shares, it is estimated to be HK$600 million. The difference in value is around HK$900 million.

In other words, it is necessary to take out 2.1 billion Hong Kong dollars in cash to acquire 3 billion Hong Kong dollars of assets with operational risks, about 7% off the amount of asset acquisition.

For the analysis of his subordinates, Andrew agrees with the valuation of Hutchison International's assets today. Although the Hong Kong land assets owned by Hutchison International are relatively scarce resources, there will be a lot of room for appreciation in the future. But that's the expected future gains, and no one can guarantee it.

Therefore, there are certain benefits to be made in acquiring the equity of Hutchison International Group. However, in terms of capital utilization, it is not a very cost-effective transaction. Moreover, running a business requires too much trouble, and it takes too much energy.

This is obviously not suitable, Andrew who has memories of a past life. With so much money, put on gold speculation in recent years, the comparison of returns between the two is too big.

Moreover, Andrew's initial starting point was just to recruit some elite talents engaged in overseas trade for the newly established overseas trading company.

This mess of Hutchison International Group, Andrew doesn't want to spend a lot of energy to take over the rectification. Therefore, Shen Bi's proposal to take over the controlling stake in Hutchison International held by HSBC, Andrew is not ready to intervene.

Andrew's decision to abandon the acquisition of a controlling stake in Hutchison International was made, and Henry and others were greatly relieved. After all, there are too many follow-up troubles in the acquisition of a controlling stake in Hutchison International, and when the time comes, they will be the responsible personnel on the front line, and they can't escape it!

However, the big trouble is to avoid it. But small troubles still need their cooperation to deal with.

That is, Andrew arranged again to tap the elite talent in trade from the chaotic Hutchison International. And inspect and evaluate the assets of Taobao Gold from the subsidiaries that Hutchison International is dealing with.

All right. The boss Andrew's affairs were arranged, and he left in style. The rest of the persecuted people continued to discuss the new way of handling affairs.