------20th anniversary------ 3) for a beginner and an amatuer doing investment on the side, that wasn't bad at all. the chief of HK stock exchange who decided to close down the market, as well as the HK government, were sharply criticized by local and int'l investors, funds, analysts, and newspapers. later that guy was sentenced to jail for bribery charges that had happened before the crash. he'd been a very powerful and influential person before all that. hong kong was then the mutual fund and financial center in asia, japan included. it probably still is now. even then they had hundreds of approved local and int'l unit trusts/mutual funds available to investors...stock funds, bond funds, balanced, growth, money market funds, gold funds, country funds, regional funds, int'l funds, currency funds, funds of funds, commodity funds, warrarnt funds, you name it, they had it. |