Breakfast with Ryan Huang, Emaad Akhtar and Audrey Siek

Like any other alternative investment, buying wine can provide one’s portfolio with an excellent source of diversification. Stocks and bonds go through familiar cycles of boom and bust, but collectables like fine wine deliver investment returns with little to no correlation to traditional assets and they may even be negatively correlated with the stock market. Wine also offers a unique source of diversification because its value is based on factors that have little relation to the performance of the economy, interest rates, corporate earnings or conventional investor sentiment. Jamie Ritchie, Global Chairman, Sotheby’s Wine shares more. 

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In today's Breakfast Brief, we talk about the about-turn by Binance, which has walked away from rescuing its rival crypto exchange FTX, because of financial liabilities reportedly to the tune of up to $8 billion and regulatory scrutiny. 

Elizabeth Kwik, Investment Director of Asian Equities, abrdn discusses what how much slower growth might be for China as the economy gets dragged down by Covid-19 restrictions, a property slump and a stronger US dollar.

From the European Union (EU) having 'serious concerns' about the US Inflation Reduction Act to what to expect from the UK's November 17 budget.  Chris Humphrey, Executive Director, EU-ASEAN Business Council shares his analysis and more. 

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Asad Jumabhoy, Co-Founder & CEO, utu. To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging Enterprise Awards 2022, click here.

UOB is a name that needs no further introduction. And now the bank has set sights on being number one in cross-border trade needs in ASEAN.  UOB is planning to do so by investing about S$500 million to build regional platforms for cash management, supply chain management, and payments, as it aims to be number one on this specific front.  We speak to Mr Frederick Chin, Head of Group Wholesale Banking and Markets, UOB  who shares more on UOB’s plans to be number one in cross-border trade needs in ASEAN.

Stephen Innes, Managing Partner, SPI Asset Management discusses how investors are pricing in a Republican lead, what the surprise acquisition by Binance of FTX means for wider sentiment around risk assets, as well as how China's October inflation reading will play into global economic outlook.

In today's Breakfast Brief, we talk about how cryptocurrency prices are tumbling after Binance and FTX, the two biggest crypto exchanges in the world, agreed to merge to address what Binance called a “liquidity crunch.”

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Charles Tang, CEO, AP Technologies. To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging Enterprise Awards 2022, click here.