Although there are other great centres of finance in the world, when viewed from a truly analytical and comparative point of view, there is no place in the world that offers the same academic and professional opportunities as Hong Kong. This is because Hong Kong is a truly international centre of finance with all of its complexities and debates, because it is where the East and the West meet in terms of competing financial visions and policy paradigms, and because it is home to academic theoreticians and practitioners in ways that other financial capitals simply cannot match in terms of diversity, activity, and sophistication. Hong Kong is the future of finance and this is my primary reason for desiring to pursue my finance studies specifically in Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong, in turn, is ideally situated both in terms of faculty expertise and access to the bustling world of competitive finance. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the programme is how it has been designed to integrate theoretical knowledge with specialised training opportunities.
Knowledge and theory, to be sure, are useless if fundamental tenets and principles cannot be applied in ways that progress toward or satisfy specific objectives. The hands-one experience of the faculty, combined with the opportunities for specialised types of hands-on experiences, distinguishes and legitimises the University of Hong Kongs programme in ways that set it apart from other university programmes throughout the world.
What I therefore seek to gain from the programme, in sum, is a pervasive immersion in the theory, the application, and the environment of finance in a comprehensive manner that will allow me to secure the most well-rounded and advanced type of analytical education possible. Finally, an additional compelling benefit that I seek to pursue and attain is the forging of social and professional relationships with my peers and my colleagues. Both Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong offer a diverse pool of individuals and professionals from whom to learn from and share ideas with in ways that are simply not available in other locations or universities. These are the benefits and the advantages I seek to secure from the programme at the University of Hong Kong.
The modern world of finance is certainly beset with challenges and opportunities. To be sure, the are financial imbalances throughout the world and many of these balances have been attributed to the substantive nature of novel financial instruments and some have been attributed to human abuses rather than the inherent fallibility of certain finance instruments and financial principles. These debates, and the underlying financial bases of these debates, relate specifically to my main research interests. Specifically, I have been most keenly intrigued by how the evolving and frequently contradictory principles of corporate governance affect finance and how the principles of finance might be better coordinated and clarified through a more cohesive and predictable type of global corporate governance paradigm. Corporate governance is such an important feature of finance, both in terms of public policy and in terms of substantive and procedural financial issues, because it can provide a more secure and predictable framework within which finance professionals may make decisions and weigh risks more confidently. I am particularly impressed and attracted to the work of Dr. Joseph P. H. Fan who has engaged in a series of critical examinations of corporate governance in different finance settings in an effort to identify and test the viability of different corporate governance models and features. Though a sometimes neglected aspect of finance, the public policy and corporate policy issues are quite interesting to me and these are areas of study I would like to pursue in addition to the more specific finance topics and courses.
Finally, on a personal business ethics note, I would like to add that todays interdisciplinary world, in which once unsolvable riddles are being approached and solved in unique ways, illustrates in a superficial manner what educational institutions like the University of Hong Kong have known in a more holistic sense for years more specifically, it is the integration of different types of knowledge that makes communities and the world a more comprehensible and ethical planet to inhabit. I would bring a firm and well-informed ethical background to the programme
Diversity Emphasis
Although there are other great centres of finance in the world, when viewed from a truly analytical and comparative point of view, there is no place in the world that offers the same academic and professional opportunities as Hong Kong. This is because Hong Kong is a truly international centre of finance with all of its complexities and debates, because it is where the East and the West meet in terms of competing financial visions and policy paradigms, and because it is home to academic theoreticians and practitioners in ways that other financial capitals simply cannot match in terms of diversity, activity, and sophistication. Hong Kong is the future of finance and this is my primary reason for desiring to pursue my finance studies specifically in Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong, in turn, is ideally situated both in terms of faculty expertise and access to the bustling world of competitive finance. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the programme is how it has been designed to integrate theoretical knowledge with specialised training opportunities. Knowledge and theory, to be sure, are useless if fundamental tenets and principles cannot be applied in ways that progress toward or satisfy specific objectives. The hands-one experience of the faculty, combined with the opportunities for specialised types of hands-on experiences, distinguishes and legitimises the University of Hong Kongs programme in ways that set it apart from other university programmes throughout the world. What I therefore seek to gain from the programme, in sum, is a pervasive immersion in the theory, the application, and the environment of finance in a comprehensive manner that will allow me to secure the most well-rounded and advanced type of analytical education possible. Finally, an additional compelling benefit that I seek to pursue and attain is the forging of social and professional relationships with my peers and my colleagues. Both Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong offer a diverse pool of individuals and professionals from whom to learn from and share ideas with in ways that are simply not available in other locations or universities. These are the benefits and the advantages I seek to secure from the programme at the University of Hong Kong.
The modern world of finance is certainly beset with challenges and opportunities. To be sure, the are financial imbalances throughout the world and many of these balances have been attributed to the substantive nature of novel financial instruments and some have been attributed to human abuses rather than the inherent fallibility of certain finance instruments and financial principles. These debates, and the underlying financial bases of these debates, relate specifically to my main research interests. Specifically, I have been most keenly intrigued by how the evolving and frequently contradictory principles of corporate governance affect finance and how the principles of finance might be better coordinated and clarified through a more cohesive and predictable type of global corporate governance paradigm. Corporate governance is such an important feature of finance, both in terms of public policy and in terms of substantive and procedural financial issues, because it can provide a more secure and predictable framework within which finance professionals may make decisions and weigh risks more confidently. I am particularly impressed and attracted to the work of Dr. Joseph P. H. Fan who has engaged in a series of critical examinations of corporate governance in different finance settings in an effort to identify and test the viability of different corporate governance models and features. Though a sometimes neglected aspect of finance, the public policy and corporate policy issues are quite interesting to me and these are areas of study I would like to pursue in addition to the more specific finance topics and courses.
That excellence cannot be attained without diversity it seems, in the modern world, to be a rather intuitive deduction. Such a deduction is perfectly consistent with the underlying nature of any intellectually honest type of inquiry. A thesis must be formulated, tested against all of the available data, and conclusions drawn. Diversity contributes, indeed it is a necessary ingredient, for any type of rigorous analysis. Social truths cannot exist in a vacuum truths must be tested in the real world and with real people rather than with imaginary prototypes that do not reflect the true diversity of opinion and contrary world views that reflect both our own society and the world at large. What might seem a perfectly plausible theory to one individual might seem extraordinarily unjust to another individual a traditional approach that seems to one individual to bring the greatest good to society to another individual might threaten to socially ostracise minority opinions and, finally, ethnocentric views inhibit academic inquiry whereas culturally diverse pools of learners break down biases and contribute to more meaningful discussions and theoretical paradigms. In the final analysis, the University of Hong Kong is an ideal setting in which to study and shares ideas that have profound social implications
Core Essay Emphasis (Goals plus Modern Finance Interest)
Although there are other great centres of finance in the world, when viewed from a truly analytical and comparative point of view, there is no place in the world that offers the same academic and professional opportunities as Hong Kong. This is because Hong Kong is a truly international centre of finance with all of its complexities and debates, because it is where the East and the West meet in terms of competing financial visions and policy paradigms, and because it is home to academic theoreticians and practitioners in ways that other financial capitals simply cannot match in terms of diversity, activity, and sophistication. Hong Kong is the future of finance and this is my primary reason for desiring to pursue my finance studies specifically in Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong, in turn, is ideally situated both in terms of faculty expertise and access to the bustling world of competitive finance. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the programme is how it has been designed to integrate theoretical knowledge with specialised training opportunities.
Knowledge and theory, to be sure, are useless if fundamental tenets and principles cannot be applied in ways that progress toward or satisfy specific objectives. The hands-one experience of the faculty, combined with the opportunities for specialised types of hands-on experiences, distinguishes and legitimises the University of Hong Kongs programme in ways that set it apart from other university programmes throughout the world. What I therefore seek to gain from the programme, in sum, is a pervasive immersion in the theory, the application, and the environment of finance in a comprehensive manner that will allow me to secure the most well-rounded and advanced type of analytical education possible. Finally, an additional compelling benefit that I seek to pursue and attain is the forging of social and professional relationships with my peers and my colleagues. Both Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong offer a diverse pool of individuals and professionals from whom to learn from and share ideas with in ways that are simply not available in other locations or universities. These are the benefits and the advantages I seek to secure from the programme at the University of Hong Kong.
The modern world of finance is certainly beset with challenges and opportunities. To be sure, the are financial imbalances throughout the world and many of these balances have been attributed to the substantive nature of novel financial instruments and some have been attributed to human abuses rather than the inherent fallibility of certain finance instruments and financial principles. These debates, and the underlying financial bases of these debates, relate specifically to my main research interests. Specifically, I have been most keenly intrigued by how the evolving and frequently contradictory principles of corporate governance affect finance and how the principles of finance might be better coordinated and clarified through a more cohesive and predictable type of global corporate governance paradigm. Corporate governance is such an important feature of finance, both in terms of public policy and in terms of substantive and procedural financial issues, because it can provide a more secure and predictable framework within which finance professionals may make decisions and weigh risks more confidently. I am particularly impressed and attracted to the work of Dr. Joseph P. H. Fan who has engaged in a series of critical examinations of corporate governance in different finance settings in an effort to identify and test the viability of different corporate governance models and features. Though a sometimes neglected aspect of finance, the public policy and corporate policy issues are quite interesting to me and these are areas of study I would like to pursue in addition to the more specific finance topics and courses.
Corporate Finance Scandal Emphasis
Although there are other great centres of finance in the world, when viewed from a truly analytical and comparative point of view, there is no place in the world that offers the same academic and professional opportunities as Hong Kong. This is because Hong Kong is a truly international centre of finance with all of its complexities and debates, because it is where the East and the West meet in terms of competing financial visions and policy paradigms, and because it is home to academic theoreticians and practitioners in ways that other financial capitals simply cannot match in terms of diversity, activity, and sophistication. Hong Kong is the future of finance and this is my primary reason for desiring to pursue my finance studies specifically in Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong, in turn, is ideally situated both in terms of faculty expertise and access to the bustling world of competitive finance. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the programme is how it has been designed to integrate theoretical knowledge with specialised training opportunities.
Knowledge and theory, to be sure, are useless if fundamental tenets and principles cannot be applied in ways that progress toward or satisfy specific objectives. The hands-one experience of the faculty, combined with the opportunities for specialised types of hands-on experiences, distinguishes and legitimises the University of Hong Kongs programme in ways that set it apart from other university programmes throughout the world. What I therefore seek to gain from the programme, in sum, is a pervasive immersion in the theory, the application, and the environment of finance in a comprehensive manner that will allow me to secure the most well-rounded and advanced type of analytical education possible. Finally, an additional compelling benefit that I seek to pursue and attain is the forging of social and professional relationships with my peers and my colleagues. Both Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong offer a diverse pool of individuals and professionals from whom to learn from and share ideas with in ways that are simply not available in other locations or universities. These are the benefits and the advantages I seek to secure from the programme at the University of Hong Kong.
The modern world of finance is certainly beset with challenges and opportunities. To be sure, the are financial imbalances throughout the world and many of these balances have been attributed to the substantive nature of novel financial instruments and some have been attributed to human abuses rather than the inherent fallibility of certain finance instruments and financial principles. These debates, and the underlying financial bases of these debates, relate specifically to my main research interests. Specifically, I have been most keenly intrigued by how the evolving and frequently contradictory principles of corporate governance affect finance and how the principles of finance might be better coordinated and clarified through a more cohesive and predictable type of global corporate governance paradigm. Corporate governance is such an important feature of finance, both in terms of public policy and in terms of substantive and procedural financial issues, because it can provide a more secure and predictable framework within which finance professionals may make decisions and weigh risks more confidently. I am particularly impressed and attracted to the work of Dr. Joseph P. H. Fan who has engaged in a series of critical examinations of corporate governance in different finance settings in an effort to identify and test the viability of different corporate governance models and features. Though a sometimes neglected aspect of finance, the public policy and corporate policy issues are quite interesting to me and these are areas of study I would like to pursue in addition to the more specific finance topics and courses.
Finally, recent corporate scandals, both in the United States and around the world, have rekindled many debates regarding both the importance of corporate governance and the best means for achieving effective types of corporate governance. Sadly, no consensus has developed about how to best address these concerns. Indeed, a comparative analysis of corporate governance processes and mechanisms, in the United States and the European Union, highlights the debates that are taking place between those who subscribe to traditional shareholder-oriented approaches to corporate governance and those who are advocating newer approaches and different types of corporate governance frameworks. It is my goal to use finance as a tool for pursuing corporate governance approaches and policies that are effective in promoting financial transparency without unduly hindering innovation and risk-taking in the field of finance.
University as Microcosm of Society Emphasis
Although there are other great centres of finance in the world, when viewed from a truly analytical and comparative point of view, there is no place in the world that offers the same academic and professional opportunities as Hong Kong. This is because Hong Kong is a truly international centre of finance with all of its complexities and debates, because it is where the East and the West meet in terms of competing financial visions and policy paradigms, and because it is home to academic theoreticians and practitioners in ways that other financial capitals simply cannot match in terms of diversity, activity, and sophistication. Hong Kong is the future of finance and this is my primary reason for desiring to pursue my finance studies specifically in Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong, in turn, is ideally situated both in terms of faculty expertise and access to the bustling world of competitive finance. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the programme is how it has been designed to integrate theoretical knowledge with specialised training opportunities.
Knowledge and theory, to be sure, are useless if fundamental tenets and principles cannot be applied in ways that progress toward or satisfy specific objectives. The hands-one experience of the faculty, combined with the opportunities for specialised types of hands-on experiences, distinguishes and legitimises the University of Hong Kongs programme in ways that set it apart from other university programmes throughout the world. What I therefore seek to gain from the programme, in sum, is a pervasive immersion in the theory, the application, and the environment of finance in a comprehensive manner that will allow me to secure the most well-rounded and advanced type of analytical education possible. Finally, an additional compelling benefit that I seek to pursue and attain is the forging of social and professional relationships with my peers and my colleagues. Both Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong offer a diverse pool of individuals and professionals from whom to learn from and share ideas with in ways that are simply not available in other locations or universities. These are the benefits and the advantages I seek to secure from the programme at the University of Hong Kong.
The modern world of finance is certainly beset with challenges and opportunities. To be sure, the are financial imbalances throughout the world and many of these balances have been attributed to the substantive nature of novel financial instruments and some have been attributed to human abuses rather than the inherent fallibility of certain finance instruments and financial principles. These debates, and the underlying financial bases of these debates, relate specifically to my main research interests. Specifically, I have been most keenly intrigued by how the evolving and frequently contradictory principles of corporate governance affect finance and how the principles of finance might be better coordinated and clarified through a more cohesive and predictable type of global corporate governance paradigm. Corporate governance is such an important feature of finance, both in terms of public policy and in terms of substantive and procedural financial issues, because it can provide a more secure and predictable framework within which finance professionals may make decisions and weigh risks more confidently. I am particularly impressed and attracted to the work of Dr. Joseph P. H. Fan who has engaged in a series of critical examinations of corporate governance in different finance settings in an effort to identify and test the viability of different corporate governance models and features. Though a sometimes neglected aspect of finance, the public policy and corporate policy issues are quite interesting to me and these are areas of study I would like to pursue in addition to the more specific finance topics and courses.
Finally, a university setting is in many ways a microcosm of society more specifically, it functions as an intellectual and social springboard from which students can make a more successful transition to society. One of my fundamental goals is community-based or social in nature. I fully intend to seek out and secure experiences in the community which will allow me to test and to hone the skills I have learned in the classroom. These will include volunteer activities as well as private-market experiences, a government role if possible, and my ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Ideally, I will be able to enrich my college experience by participating in extracurricular activities at the University of Hong Kong as well as performing some important role in the community.
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