From Wall Street to the Great Wall (eBook)

JONATHAN WORRALL is Chairman of Ford Equity Research and CEOof Mergent, Inc., a Xinhua Finance company and leading provider ofglobal business and financial information on publicly tradedcompanies and fixed income securities. Worrall has held seniorpositions in the financial data and analysis systems and softwareindustries since 1982. He has lived and worked in the U.K., Asia,Australia, and the United States, serving the global investmentmanagement and broking community. PETER O'SHEA is Managing Editor of one of Mergent'sleading online products, the Mergent Industry Reports, which coverthe current environment for leading companies and profile a rangeof industries in North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. O'Sheahas been an editor and journalist since the late 1980s, working fora number of leading publishers. He is currently based in Sydney,Australia. IVAN CHUNG, CFA, heads Xinhua Finance Credit Ratings, thepioneering project in China that assigns domestic currency ratingsto Chinese corporations based on international standards. Mr. Chunghas more than ten years of experience in investment and creditresearch. Prior to joining Xinhua Finance, he was an investmentanalyst in the Structured and Acquisition Finance Division withJardine Fleming, specializing in credit risk analysis. He also hasexperience investing in Asian corporate debt securities. He is acommittee member of the Best Practices Committee in the Associationof Credit Rating Agencies in Asia, sponsored by the AsianDevelopment Bank.

Foreword: Investing in China by Ivan Chung, CFA.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: The New Face of World Economics.

Part I A Premise for a New World View.

CHAPTER 1 An Economic History of China.

CHAPTER 2 Worldwide Change and the Globalization ofInvestments.

CHAPTER 3 Economic Forces at Work.

CHAPTER 4 Emerging Investment Themes: Global Supply andDemand.

CHAPTER 5 Stock Markets: Domestic and International.

Part II Methods and Strategies in the New Market.

CHAPTER 6 An Investorâ??s Road Map into China.

CHAPTER 7 Developing a China Strategy.

CHAPTER 8 An Analysis of Chinese Stocks and Funds.

CHAPTER 9 The World of Tomorrow.

CHAPTER 10 Research in the New Global InvestmentEnvironment.

Appendix: Information Sources and Research Tools.

Notes.

Index.