| ��I discovered Hong Kong through the HKTDC last year, so when the Asia Financial Forum came up, I decided to come back because I believe there��s no better way to get the real feel for what��s going on in Asia than to come to Hong Kong. The panelists that you have are simply outstanding. The HKTDC is outstanding in setting up these meetings and they really are the eyes and ears for us.�� |
| Pierre Casgrain, Director, Casgrain & Company Ltd., Montreal, Canada |
��We are satisfied that we made the right decision to support this event and are motivated to make it better next year. We think the quality of speakers was impressive and we want to help make it so that Hong Kong lives up to its reputation as the anchor for Asia in terms of finance.��
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| Martin Craigs, President, Pacific Basin Economic Council, Hong Kong |
��Colleagues at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council are to be congratulated for the vision in creating the Asian Financial Forum.��
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| Ian Russell, President & CEO, Investment Industry Association of Canada |
��What we had today was over 200 individual one-on-one meetings where people were engaged and they were finding each other of interest to them for business. We had a variety of sources of capital, people from Canada and Vietnam and the U.S. and France and of course mainland China, but because of the TDC��s leadership it happened here.�� |
| Patrick Hurley, Managing Director, MidMarket Capital Advisors LLC, USA |
��I��ll be back in the next forum because networking is important and the calibre of the people who are attending is very high.�� |
| Michael Meagher, Advisory Director, Chief Representative, C.W. Downer & Co., Shanghai, China |
��We wanted to attend the forum to have a better understanding of the global financial crisis and the future development of the world economy to get our business prepared for the crisis. Yes, our business has been seriously affected, prices are being driven down by customers in the West, so it��s a very difficult time, and that��s why we came here in order to learn more about what��s happening.�� |
| Zhou Jun, President, Shandong Province Association of Lighting, Qingdao, China |
��It��s the networking that brought us here, pure and simple.�� |
| Robert Haag, Managing Director Asia, Hampton Growth Capital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
��It��s good to come to these meetings and not only for the financial industry, but it��s been one of the best conferences. For me, I always need to attend conferences like these to meet people. I��m a market participant, so meeting the market regulators and the bankers, especially following the financial crisis, is important.�� |
| Yukie Tung, Head of Institutional Business, BEA Union Investment Management Ltd., Hong Kong
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��It��s good to have such a forum so we can learn. I find it personally interesting and useful for our own work and from a regional point of view, it��s a good way for us to spread the word about Vietnam as well.�� |
| Lincoln Vu, Deputy Chairman, Vietnam Industrial & Commercial Securities Corp., Haiphong, Vietnam |
��I think it��s good this event is taking place because of the networking, which is the most important part. Personally it��s the networking in this economic environment that helps me find out what��s possible and what��s not possible. I enjoyed the speakers and the assortment, but it��s mainly meeting people that is the most important.�� |
| Jurgen Kracht, Managing Director, Fiducia Management Consultants, Hong Kong |
��We also wanted to meet as many people as we could to learn from their experiences and we accomplished that goal. In my opinion, the arrangement of the Asian Financial Forum is quite good. We have learnt a lot from it and if possible I will attend next year.�� |
| Gerry Y.G. Lee, Secretary General, Taiwan Financial Services Roundtable, Taipei |
