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Jan 18, 2025 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
Mike Lee, CFA, MBA · Follow 8 min read · -- [opinions here are my own, it does not represent any investment advice] Photo by Nahrizul Kadri on Unsplash Introduction I know that I have promised to write something about crypto last month but I just simply cannot ignore the elephant in the room right now, since last blog, a lot of crazy things have happened in the UK with the UK long-term government bond (10-year gilts) hitting almost 5% yield and the pound sterling depreciating rapidly against...
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
Parenting Lessons from Confucius’ The AnalectsMike Lee·FollowPublished inThe Parenting Portal·5 min read·--Photo by Benjamin Manley on UnsplashWe want to encourage those we love to be the best versions of themselves. As parents, it’s our responsibility to prepare our children for the real world. How do we do that? When do we step in, and when do we give them space to explore?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
Mike Lee·Follow5 min read·--Photo by Hannah Busing on UnsplashWe are shaped by the people we surround ourselves with, and as parents, those influences shape our families too. What impact do your closest friends have on your life and your loved ones? The Analects offers timeless wisdom on virtuous living through Confucian philosophy and emphasizes the importance of personal and moral growth as central to becoming a “gentleman”.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
Mike Lee·Follow10 min read·--The Analects is packed full of wisdom, outlining a philosophy that Confucius believed to be essential to good governance and leadership. It covers a myriad of topics from how to maintain social relationships to ethics and morality. Below we explore how to apply the ancient wisdom of Confucian philosophy, and particularly the idea of the “gentleman”, to being a modern parent.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
Further from previous month’s entry on why I’m building Lyrictape where I explained my background in music and how I met my co-founder and touched on the difficult part of building Lyrictape, for this month’s blog I would continue the discussion ond my experience and learning at Buildspace as co-founder of Lyrictape.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
This month’s blog is going to be a long-due entry regarding why I started Lyrictape as a lot of people might be wondering how did a former investment banker and crypto degen have any connection to the music industry and why I decided to put Lyrictape to Buildspace’s Night & Weekend programme as a lot of things that we have been working on were not published (probably due to the fact that currently none of us in the Lyrictape team is from a marketing/agency background and we are not as keen...
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
As the world's major economies such as France, UK and the US are approaching election period, a series of campaigning have been done by multiple political parties across the developed world and for this month's blog, I have decided to deviate a little bit from my usual Fintech or Web3 topics, instead I will discuss the potential economic impact of the upcoming British general election (4th July) outcome which, more likely than not, might see the shift of political power from the conservatives...
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mike Lee
For this month’s blog entry, I would like to elaborate a bit on a topic that (was previously avoided not over-looked) due to its rather light-hearted nature than the usual finance blog entries. In particular I have decided to discuss meme-coins as they account for over USD 22 billion market capitalization (according to Coingecko’s data) and roughly 1% of the entire crypto market cap value.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
ey.com | Gurdeep Singh Batra |Hermin Hologan |Mike Lee |Elliott Shadforth |Mark I. Wightman
Firms should aim to be “the best versions of themselves” in what promises to be another challenging year. In brief The start of the year is often a time for economic, market or technology forecasts — and for personal resolutions. We combined both elements in this countdown of the top 10 resolutions for WAM leaders to make in 2024. Faced with continuing market uncertainty and growing earnings pressure, resolving to "get in shape" has never been more important.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
wealthmanagement.com | Mike Lee
Artificial intelligence will play a crucial role in asset managers’ ability to deliver sustainable and profitable growth—but only if they get it right. That’s a key message from our latest study on Reframing the Future of Asset Management, which provides a roadmap to the future for an industry facing exceptional challenges.
