The best-selling author of “Hot Commodities” as well as “Adventure Capitalist” has a new book called “A Gift to My Children – A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing”. Jim who now lives in Singapore, also has a daughter studying Mandarin, and such is his confidence in the fact that the 21st Century belongs to China. There is a lot of investment advice in the book but also practical advice such as that girls should not get married until they are at least 28 and they know a bit about themselves and the world. He also tells them that they should be wary of men who look old enough to be their father or grandfather – because such men will not be thinking of them as their daughter or granddaughter!

One that has always appealed to me because I always decline to go to party functions for the office is what he tells them in that respect, “It is vitally important to maintain boundaries between work and life. Skip going out for drinks with the gang after work every night. You will notice that the boss does not do it, which is one reason that he is the boss.”