I Want To Be a Rich Man on Hong Kong Island

"Father, here is the blueprint for the design of the bus terminal!" Wu Xianshuo walked into Wu Guangyao's office and handed over a stack of drawings.

Before the Hong Kong government decided to start the auction of the design blueprint of the Central Bus Terminal site, Wu Guangyao ordered the Yangtze River Design Institute to design it;

The entire design plan lasted eight months, and the final draft should be finalized today.

A 68-story building and a 72-story building will have a property area of ​​1.8 million square feet after completion;

In the previous life, there were three buildings on this land, two 52-story buildings and one 32-story building, with a total property area of ​​1.5 million square feet;

Presumably, but due to funding problems, Landmark did not invest too much.

The reason why Wu Guangyao requested to design two buildings instead of three buildings;

Naturally, there is a mentality of comparison. At this time, the tallest building in Hong Kong is the Hopewell Building, which is 66 floors high;

According to history, the next Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong will break the record of Hopewell Tower, reaching 70 floors.

Not only did he compare the height, but even the investment cost of the building was generously budgeted by Wu Guangyao to 5 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Because it was the last draft, Wu Guangyao saw a few places that needed to be corrected, and said to Wu Xianshuo: "Let's finalize the draft like this!"

After finishing speaking, Wu Guangyao continued: "I plan to cooperate with others in the sixth large-scale housing estate project in Tin Shui Wai! You go talk to Hongkong Land and see if they are interested?"

Wu Xianshuo was taken aback, and said, "Cooperate with Hongkong Land on such a large-scale project?"

Wu Guangyao nodded, without too much explanation, just said: "On the auction floor, it is limited to the auction floor; outside the auction floor, everyone can cooperate. Just like when I bought the Wharf warehouse of Jardine Matheson, Didn’t you also cooperate with Hongkong Land later on?”

When Wu Xianshuo heard this, he knew that his father was teaching him, so he thought about it carefully and said, "Well, I know how to do it!"

Wu Guangyao added: "Be sincere, since it is a cooperation, it must be a win-win situation! We will pay for the land, and they will pay for the construction fee, 50% to 50%!"

On Hong Kong Island, companies with land are the ones who take the initiative in cooperation, because the land is small and there are many people;

Moreover, the party paying the construction fee,

Basically, you only need to come up with a start-up capital, and the rest can be used for loans and off-plan sales.

After Wu Xianshuo left, Wu Guangyao showed a playful smile;

What win-win cooperation?

It's just digging a hole for Hongkong Land!

At this time, the management of Jardine and Hongkong Land abandoned the conservative and prudent investment strategy they had always pursued, and turned to aggressive, impatient, and speculative;

Because of the loss of Wharf, Jardine intends to build Hongkong Land into a diversified comprehensive enterprise group integrating real estate, hotels, retail, trade, and telecommunications;

Trying to build Hong Kong Land into a super "big bank" and compete with Chinese tycoons.

Moreover, Wu Guangyao also knew that even before and after the Sino-British negotiations, Hongkong Land’s management’s judgment on Hong Kong’s political and economic situation was seriously out of touch with objective reality;

Landmark even predicted optimistically that the UK could renew the lease contract in Hong Kong through negotiations;

It can be seen how naive and ridiculous the management of Hongkong Land is.

Since they were going to die, Wu Guangyao was of course happy to see them, and he could even add fuel to the fire.

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Cheung Kong Building

Wu Guangyao convened a family office investment meeting, which was attended by the family office CEO Morse, family office investment director Peter Lynch, Everbright Securities Liu Yu, Wu Xianyi, Wu Xianyu, Wu Xianying, and Wu Guangyao I, a total of only seven people can attend this top-secret meeting.

Robertson of Tiger Fund and Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Fund, although they are also Wu Guangyao's subordinates, are not absolutely trustworthy;

Because these two people also have business cooperation with Wu Guangyao, Wu Guangyao is worried that they will use their own analysis to develop their own business.

The three brothers Wu Xianyi, Wu Xianyu and Wu Xianying have a very close relationship, they are both brothers and classmates;

Now the three of them happen to control the family bank. Wu Xianying is the director of Everbright Financial Department, Wu Xianyu is the director of Standard Chartered Bank, and Wu Xianying is the director of Chiba Bank;

Therefore, for this investment meeting, Wu Guangyao called the three brothers.

Wu Guangyao first said: "Do you still have the gold futures list?"

Everyone answered no, and reported their gains!

At this time, the price of gold has reached $400 per ounce;

Since January 1980, the price of gold has dropped from $800 to $500, then from $500 to $700, and finally from $700 to $400;

The Wu family and its associated companies (including through the channels of Tiger Fund and Bridgewater Fund) have made a total profit of 6.5 billion US dollars.

After all, it is a futures market, so compared with speculating on real gold, it has more considerations;

So to earn 6.5 billion US dollars, Wu Guangyao is already very satisfied!

Wu Guangyao thought about it carefully, and everyone held their breaths without interrupting;

For the family's large investment, Wu Guangyao made the highest instruction, and the people below can execute it;

Of course, there is also a certain amount of money that is all handed over to the investment department to decide the direction of investment by itself.

Wu Guangyao thought for a while and said, "Our next main direction is to speculate in dollars!"

Peter Lynch tentatively said, "The dollar is going up?"

Wu Guangyao nodded, as far as he knew, from 1980 to 1985, the US dollar appreciated by 87%;

During this period of time, Wu Guangyao made a comparison, and now the US dollar has appreciated by less than 15%, that is, there is still room for 70%;

Add 5 times leverage, at least 3 times the profit!

Wu Guangyao said: "You guys arrange to use 2 billion U.S. dollars for operations, and prepare another 2 billion U.S. dollars for margin calls, and the leverage will be increased by five times."

The so-called margin call is to increase the position if it is found that the position is about to be liquidated;

In this way, you can avoid holding on until dawn due to liquidation.

Wu Guangyao only knows the general trend, but there will definitely be a 5% to 10% drop in the middle, so it is very necessary to increase the leverage by 5 times and prepare 2 billion US dollars to cover the position!

And for all the investment strategies set by Wu Guangyao, everyone is not allowed to operate on their own;

When Wu Guangyao said to close the position, he had to close the position, even if it was a liquidation, it was Wu Guangyao's responsibility.

Wu Xianying asked: "Father asked us three brothers to come to the meeting because several banks can also participate in this kind of investment?"

Wu Guangyao nodded and said, "Yes, Standard Chartered Bank and Chiba Bank can also do futures, but not too much, just spend 100 million U.S. dollars. After all, we are mainly commercial banks."

The three brothers nodded, the father's words are the imperial decree, especially in business.

Peter Lynch said: "BOSS, since the dollar is rising, gold should be falling! Why don't we short gold at the same time?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, it seemed very reasonable!

Wu Guangyao said with a smile: "Gold can actually be shorted, but not now; gold should still rise for a while, and it can rise to about $450 to $500 before falling. So, you should go long first. Give it a try, don’t need too much money, the amount of 1 billion US dollars is about the same.”

Because I don't know how much history has been changed, Wu Guangyao's memory of his previous life is already dubious;

Take out a few billion dollars, even if you lose money, Wu Guangyao can learn a lesson.

Throughout the meeting, it was Wu Guangyao who was analyzing the general situation, while the rest were mainly discussing how to allocate the amount of investment and how to maintain consistent behavior under the unified scheduling of the family office.