Hong Kong may have been in the midst of some turmoil and other conferences may have fled but II’s back-to-back conferences – on renewable energy, the main conference and on infrastructure debt – went ahead on 12 – 14 November. Andrew joined MIGA’s Jae Hyung Kwon and HSBC’s Stewart James with Infrastructure Investor’s Eduard Fernandez […]
Andrew in the Financial Times: how Beijing could diffuse the HK crisis in one bold move
If the PLA handed over some of the land that it does not need, the effect would be dramatic, as Andrew writes in today’s Financial Times.
Belt & Road Forum: next, walk the new walk
When you have funded $440 billion of investment in six years, you can indulge in a little self – congratulation. But at last week’s Belt & Road Forum convened to maintain / regain the momentum of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), President Xi Jin Ping acknowledged a need to address i) sustainability (i.e. viability […]
Houses for courses?
The anti – elite populism of Brexit, Trump et al has arrived in, of all unlikely places, Hong Kong. Last week, the SAR government endorsed recommendations from its Task Force on Land Supply, recommendations which included amongst its short-to-medium options the resumption of eight holes and the car park at Fanling Golf Club when its […]
The 17th G20 / OECD workshop on long term investment: what can be agreed and what won’t
The OECD accounts for perhaps 50% of World GDP; take out its small, rich members and add in the six big, poorer BRIICS and you get the G20 which accounts for 73% of World GDP. Thus, when the two organisations come together to discuss long term investment, the potential agenda is enormous and every perspective […]
Kai Tak Sports Park: is Hong Kong finally pulling up its socks?
Twenty years after the old airport closed, New World has won the 25 year Design Build & Operate contract for the Kai Tak Sports Park. The 28 hectare site will feature a 50,000 capacity stadium with retractable roof, an indoor stadium with capacity of up to 10,000, a 5,000 seat community sports ground plus a […]
PEI Infrastructure Investor’s HK summit: new technology will radically change infrastructure investing
Congratulations to PEI Infrastructure Investor magazine on their latest Hong Kong summit on 15 – 16 November, with the addition this year of a renewable energy forum. Andrew returned to the panel on “Technology, disruption and its future impact on infrastructure investing” alongside Atkins’ Catherine Li, McKinsey’s Asina de Branche and MacQuarie’s Jonathan Walbridge with […]
TXF Asia conference: what is needed to make today’s deals bankable
Congratulations to TXF magazine on their latest conference on export, agency and project finance in Asia in Hong Kong on 14 – 15 November. Andrew moderated the final session on “The bankability question: vital infrastructure financing in ASEAN” with Michael Boardman from renewables developer Sindicatum and the ADB’s Bart Raemaekers. What is needed to match the […]
The Greater Bay Area is needed but the HZM bridge is not
The Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau bridge opened this week, the latest in a flurry of enormous infrastructure projects amidst Beijing’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative to enhance collaboration across the three different jurisdictions of the Pearl River Delta. As I opined on Swiss TV and radio earlier this week, the GBA is needed […]
Andrew in the SCMP: CE’s plans for Lantau reclamation ignore HK’s future integration with the Mainland
In her policy address, Carrie Lam has proposed spending US$64 billion on land reclamation east of Lantau – but, over a twenty year time frame, the need for this depends entirely on the assumption that immigration to HK will continue whereas it is more likely to fall away as the Greater Bay Area initiative integrates […]
Hong Kong’s Express Rail Link to the Mainland has opened: is it worth it?
Infrastructure serves various purposes apart from the obvious provision of transport, power, water, communications, etc. Most dramatically, it can help alleviate poverty which in this past quarter century has declined in spectacular fashion in China (which comprises most of East Asia & Pacific per the World Bank in its updated report to be issued on […]
The Expert Witness Institute to launch a branch in Singapore
The Expert Witness Institute has applied for registration of a branch in Singapore. It held its inaugural seminar there on “The Role of an Expert in Dispute Resolution” on 18 September. The event was hosted by Professor Leslie Chew, Dean of Law at Singapore University of Social Sciences; Sir Martin Spencer, Chairman of the Board […]
Andrew in GBRW’s newsletter: Belt & Road will deliver plenty of disputes but where will they be resolved?
GBRW, based out of London and Singapore, sources experts for disputes. Writing in their monthly newsletter, Andrew predicted that plenty of disputes would arise from China’s Belt & Road Initiative – although where they are resolved is not so clear. Read the article here GBRW Aug 18.
Roman roads demonstrate how infrastructure spending can deliver (very) long term returns
Research from Carl-Johan Dalgaard and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen demonstrates that the density of ancient Roman roads at a given point in Europe strongly correlates with present-day prosperity. Often originally built for military – i.e. not necessarily economic – reasons, today entire cities are located on them. Taking into account increases in real estate […]
Andrew for the HK Institute of Directors: push back on Belt & Road is healthy in the long term
Amongst other qualifications, Andrew is a Fellow of the HK Institute of Directors. This month’s edition of the Institute’s The 21st Century Director magazine leads with an article by Andrew on HKIoD mag issue 24 (pp 66 – 67): essentially, BRI is at an inflexion point where push back in the short term should lead […]
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