College of Business
AACSB International EQUIS - European Quality Improvement System
Career Talk/Seminar
HKSA Seminar: When Triffin's Dilemma meets Thucycides' Trap at the DeepSeek Moment

Date: May 31 (Sat), 2025 10:00 am
Venue: GraceHub, 6/F, Elite Centre, 22 Hung To Road (MTR Exit A, Ngan Tau Kok Station)
Details:

Keynote Speaker: Mr. Eddie Tam, MPPM, CEO, CIO and Portfolio Manager, Central Asset Investments
Theme: The conflict of economic interests that arises between short term domestic and long term international objectives for countries whose currencies serve as global reserve currencies.

Date: 31 May 2025 (Sat)
Time: 10:00 AM (lunch included)
Venue: GraceHub, 6/F, Elite Centre, 22 Hung To Road (MTR Exit A, Ngan Tau Kok Station)
Language: Cantonese
Dress Code: Business Attire
Fee: Free

Speaker Bio:
Eddie Tam is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Central Asset Investments, an established multi-strategy investment firm with offices in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai. Mr. Tam founded Central Asset Investments in April 2005. He oversees the management of the firm as well as the flagship CAI Global Fund. Primarily, Mr. Tam is responsible for top down asset allocation between strategies, asset classes, geography and themes. Under his leadership, the CAI Global Fund was ranked the #1 best-performing multi-strategy hedge fund globally according to Bloomberg (based on 5-year annual returns) and Barclay hedge in 2013.

Mr. Tam has over 30 years of experience in the financial industry. Mr. Tam was credited as one of the pioneers in Asian equity derivatives, previously heading the Derivatives Sales and Marketing at Credit Lyonnais and Merrill Lynch. Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell laboratories focusing on systems development and integration. Mr. Tam