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Richard Li Tzar-Kai, the youngest son of Hong Kong’s legendary mogul Li Ka-shing, seriously considered joining Franklin Templeton and AIG Investments back in June 2009 when the negotiations for acquiring the American International Group’s asset management division began.

AIG’s buyers offered US$500 million, with the deal closing at the end of June. Singapore’s state-owned independent wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, also allegedly thought of getting into the group and offered financial support. negotiations for acquiring the American International Group’s asset management division began.

At present, AIG Investments holds assets worth around US$85 billion, all on behalf of important clients like insurance companies and pension funds.negotiations for acquiring the American International Group’s asset management division began.

The chairman of Hong Kong-based PCCW Ltd, Richard Li was actually invited into the group by Templeton himself. Li’s reputation in the Asian business industry is quite stellar considering that aside from PCCW, he also keeps himself busy as Bank of East Asia’s non-executive director and as Pacific Century Regional Developments Ltd’s chairman. negotiations for acquiring the American International Group’s asset management division began.

In addition, Richard Li is also affiliated with Washington, DC’s Center for Strategic and International Studies’ International Councilors Group as well as the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. In China, Richard Li actively participates in community endeavors through his involvement in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is a council member. Li is also a full-time member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.negotiations for acquiring the American International Group’s asset management division began.

Sources: http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/business-in-china/100114056-1-hk-tycoon-richard-li-may.html

Latest study by business consultancy company Peninsula Ireland shows that the usage of smart phones like iPhones and Blackberrys is turning people into workaholics and seriously hampering their social lives.

Research conducted on over 600 employees of Peninsula Ireland confirmed that employees possessing smartphones given by the company are more likely to put in around 56 hours of work every week in comparison with the average of 40 working hours per week. Thus employees possessing smart handsets, because of constantly using the internet and checking official mails outside office, are putting in more hours of extra work than their less smartly connected colleagues.

Managing Director of Peninsula Ireland Alan Price thinks that the advanced technology of mobile broadband with such phones and the mobile broadband laptop is making working hours endless for Irish workers, who can always be contacted and burdened with more work at any hour of the day.

This might be good news for a company as it will get more work done without having to pay for overtime, but it can seriously upset the balance between personal and professional lives of employees and turn them into workaholics. It is a sad fact that companies seem to be too happy with the increased productivity of such employees and remain completely unconcerned about serious imbalances in their personal lives.

When buying a pushchair, the health of both parents and babies should be the primary concern. Any discomfort to either can lead to health issues. Parents should always remember a few key factors when choosing pushchairs before they get drawn towards the variety of designs, colours and styles of pushchairs available in the market. The ergonomics of the product should always come first and cannot be ignored at any cost.

The first element to be looked at should be height-adjustable handles or handlebars. If the handle is at a fixed level and is not suitable to one or both parents, it can result in back, shoulder and neck pain due to the strain exerted on these body parts. Again, both parents can be of different heights and what is suitable for one may not necessarily be suitable for the other. Hence, adjustable handles are a must on any pushchair.

The seat length and width are other key factors. If the seat becomes inadequate after a few months as the baby grows up, it may have trouble in sitting on the pushchair comfortably. You need to ensure that the seat size will accommodate your baby for the entire period of infancy until he or she begins to walk.

Another factor for comfort of the baby is adjustable leg supports. A baby grows quite fast, so the leg supports need to be adjustable in order to hold it’s legs comfortably. The best pushchairs strollers are ones that provide a wide range of support lengths so that the baby’s legs are always comfortable on the leg rests. Improper support can cause the baby to have back problems, especially since it would be using the same pushchair through its infancy.

The report’s conclusion that credit card debt is problematic for entrepreneurs has been echoed elsewhere. John Tozzi of Business Week wrote, “start-ups that lean too much on credit cards are more likely to fail…” And the post at the Kauffman Foundation’s Policy Forum that describes the study is titled “Credit Card Debt Threatens Start-Up Survival.”

A recent study by Robert Scott of Monmouth University found that “every $1,000 increase in credit card debt increases the probability a firm will close by 2.2 percent.” It also explained that “reliance on this type of financing may lead many businesses into a long-term liquidity drain that affects their financial stability and thus survival.”

Maybe, but then again, maybe not.

The study was based on a regression analysis that predicted three-year survival of new firms as a function of their level of credit card debt, using data from the Kauffman Firm Survey, which tracks a sample of new companies from the 2004 cohort of American start-ups. While there are plenty of websites that allow you to compare credit cards, many people still go with the bank they know out of laziness or misplaced notions of trust.

Another interpretation of the study’s results is that entrepreneurs whose businesses aren’t doing well tend to run up credit card debt faster than entrepreneurs who are doing well because they need to get cash somewhere. Because companies that aren’t doing well are also more likely to fail, we see a correlation between business failure and the size of credit card debt.

But is the cause of the failure the credit card debt? The businesses may be doing badly because the ideas behind them aren’t very good or because they are poorly run or because they suffer from the myriad of other things that make some new companies perform poorly. These weaknesses whatever they are lead to heavier credit card borrowing and greater odds of failure.

The report included a result that suggests this alternative explanation: the credit card debt of surviving new firms is higher than that of the nonsurviving firms in 2004, the first year of operation. But, in 2005, the nonsurvivors added more credit card debt than the survivors, creating the statistical association between the magnitude of the credit card debt and new business failure.