Chapter 673: Ruthless Man
Barron did not stay in Japan for too long. On the third day, he had already flown to Huaxia HK again.
In HK, Barron stayed at the newly opened Devonshire Hotel - HK itself has the Four Seasons Hotel Group, but in the planning of the Four Seasons-Cavendish Hotel Group, 10 During the year, they will open or acquire more than 80 hotels around the world, implementing the "10-20-50" strategy, which means adding 10 Devonshire luxury hotels, 20 Four Seasons high-end hotels and 50 Cavendish luxury hotels. .
The main growth will be in Asia, with the focus being on the Chinese region where emerging wealth will gather at an accelerated pace.
One of the Devonshire luxury hotels is located in Hong Kong, the financial center of Asia.
This time, Barron came to Hong Kong mainly to inspect some of his industries and provide support for some of them. Therefore, his trip was very low-key. Not only would he not have any contact with the government, but he also refused all offers from local wealthy people. Private dinner.
After all, as the Duke of England, coming to China HK, his status is somewhat sensitive. I believe that many people will pay attention to his trip.
“By setting up the headquarters of AIA in Hong Kong, we express our willingness to continue to focus on AIA and explore the Asian market, and we will also provide the greatest support for this.”
As soon as he came to HK, Barron met Arthur Henriquez, CEO of AIA, and expressed support for him.
After AIA Group acquired AIA from American International Group, it still retained AIA as an independent company. Now AIA’s headquarters has been moved from America to HK— —In fact, the headquarters of AIA was in Hong Kong before, but their parent company, AIA Life Insurance Company of America, was headquartered in the United States...
This also shows that AIA, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AIA Group, its main market is the entire Asian region radiated from HK.
In the future, in emerging markets such as Asia, they will use the AIA brand to conduct business, and in the European market, they will continue to use the original Youcheng brand to conduct business.
In comparison, the market value of AIA, a "subsidiary" of AIA Insurance Group, is much greater than that of its parent company.
The reason for this arrangement is also considering that after many years of development in Asia, AIA already has a huge customer base and brand effect, and it should not be abandoned easily.
“In the next few years or even ten years, Asia, especially China, will be the most growing market in the insurance industry, and we, AIA Insurance Company, will also invest in this market, Your Highness the Duke , especially in the Huaxia region, we have established Youcheng Huaxia Insurance Company as our Huaxia branch. This will also be our largest branch, and we will develop this market together with local partners.”
It can be seen that Arthur Henriquez still attaches great importance to the Chinese market. Before this, he had just returned from mainland China and led a team to inspect the Chinese insurance industry.
In previous acquisitions, Arthur Henriquez was on the side of the Cavendish Trust, that is, Barron's, so after completing the acquisition of AIA, he was Remain in office and continue to serve as CEO of AIA Insurance Company.
The reason for making such a choice is that Arthur Henriquez is optimistic about the investment capabilities of DS Group and Barron's. The insurance company collects premiums and then pays out compensation when the conditions are met. During this period, there will be a large amount of of precipitated funds, and an important part of their profits is the investment profits of these precipitated funds.
Cooperating with DS Group to invest can ensure that AIA’s funds will have more reliable and considerable returns.
After all, the original parent company of AIA, American International Group, had to sell them due to huge losses in their investment department.
In contrast, DS Group has achieved great results not only during the subprime mortgage crisis, but also in its investments after its establishment.
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After coming to HK, Barron also gave his personal assistant Zhang Junning two days off as mentioned before - her parents were also at this time Came to HK from Wanwan to visit her.
After all, since taking up the position of Barron's personal assistant, although the salary is generous, it can be said that Zhang Junning has not had any vacation for a long time, let alone returning home to visit his parents. Now he has this opportunity, It also allows her to reunite with her family. At this time, he met a visiting guest in the hotel's presidential suite.
This visiting guest is the famous Li Chaoren.
In fact, this is not the first meeting between Barron and Li Chaoren. When he was preparing to acquire Standard Chartered Bank, he had come to Hong Kong to meet some HK tycoons and acquired a part of it from them. At that time, Barron had met Li Chaoren for shares of Standard Chartered Bank.
This time after Barron came to HK, he declined all private banquets, including Li Chaoren's.
What I didn’t expect was that Li Chaoren couldn’t attend the banquet and came directly to the hotel to see him.
Speaking of which, Barron has intercepted many of Li Chaoren’s projects so far, including the British Northern Natural Gas Network and British Power Distribution companies. In the original time and space, both were acquired by Li Chaoren. project.
Even Li Chaoren of O2 Telecom once thought about making an acquisition, but the acquisition failed in the end because it was not reviewed by the British regulatory agencies.
Obviously, Li Chaoren still has not given up his purpose of investing in England. Barron can also see what he means in the conversation with him.
It’s no wonder that although Li Chaoren has connections in England and he himself has received a knighthood from the Queen, he understands better that the influence of Barron, the Duke of England, in England is Very big. If we can establish a good relationship with him and gain support from him, it will also be beneficial to his series of acquisitions in England.
So making money is not shabby. For this reason, it is not surprising that the richest man in Asia came to the Devonshire Hotel to meet Barron in person.
And in terms of net worth, although Barron is younger than Li Ka-shing's youngest son, he is still ranked third on the world's richest list this year.
"I very much welcome you to invest in the UK, Sir. Especially at this moment, the economic crisis has not yet passed, and the world is likely to fall into a long-term recession. Any investment is worthy of being welcomed..."
Barron doesn't really like talking to old foxes like Li Chaoren. After all, he always talks in a roundabout way, which is really a bit unpleasant.
More importantly, if according to Chinese people's habits, Barron should always be humble when faced with Li Chaoren's various flattery...
But his current net worth and wealth are as well as Despite his status, he seemed modest despite his youth, and it seemed like he was showing off in a roundabout way.
Well, Barron can only congratulate Li Chaoru on having a grandson...
The thing is, the hottest news in Hong Kong recently is nothing more than the "scandal" between actress Liang Luoshi and Li Chaoren's second son, Superboy. Of course, it is no longer just a scandal, because the media directly announced "Superboy" Photo of a family of three”— -At the end of April, Liang Luoshi gave birth to a son for Superboy in Canada...
Superman Li was so happy that he personally named the grandson "Changzhi"...
However, Barron knew that Master Liang Luo was also ruthless. In order to marry into a rich family, she gave birth to a son for Superboy when she had no status, and then gave birth to three sons for Superboy in succession - even before Barron was reborn, Master Liang Luo was pregnant with the third son. News about the four children has begun to come out...
Of course, she was not at a loss. Although she did not marry into the Li family in the end, she at least took away more than 500 million in alimony from the Li family, and her sons all have inheritance rights...
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