Chapter 836: Chapter 347: Ambitious Nature (Part 3)

Han Lie never saw himself as a speculator; he aimed to become Huaxia’s godfather in finance.

US stock meltdown, Eagle Country currency crash, RMB going abroad, Middle East sovereign investment funds shrinking drastically, US debt crisis, multiple European Union governments bankrupt...

If possible, he wants to be involved in all of them.

Why just fool around domestically when you can play globally?

Those who set grand ambitions must take one step at a time to cover a thousand miles.

Fully staffing the Research and Strategy Department and establishing a global economic observation window is the first step. Once the models are fairly complete, Liu Yaohua’s team will need to add a considerable number of international political experts. Only by integrating politics and economics can it meet Han Lie’s needs.

By then, currency markets, bond markets, oil, gold, and commodity markets will all be Han Lie’s battlegrounds.

Cutting the grass sharply abroad and returning home to invest wildly in tech companies—wouldn’t that be delightful?!

But Han Lie didn’t explain things so explicitly or far-reachingly to his employees.

You hold hope to a certain extent, do your respective jobs, and just follow me.

The pressure, I will bear.

The glory, I am willing to share with you...

Facing thunderous applause in the meeting room, Han Lie raised his hand, gesturing to calm down.

"Thank you! But let’s save the celebrations for when we truly realize our vision after we’ve accomplished our tasks... Next up, let’s invite our Chief Engineer of the Quantitative Department, Jack Yang."

Quantitative departments were considered novel in early 2014 domestically.

However, a few years later, quantitative trading began to flood the A-share market.

Some stubborn retail investors, when trapped, would curse the ’dog brokers’ and ’dog strategists’ on forums, when in fact, most of the time, a bunch of robots were keeping them trapped inside...

To understand quantitative trading, we first need to clarify one thing—is the quantitative program that magical?

A good strategy can achieve a success rate of over 70%, which is pretty impressive.

But ultimately, it’s just a rigid program; the advantage is that it lacks various human weaknesses, while the disadvantage is it doesn’t have the intuition of a trading master.

The upper profitability limit of quantitative trading is approximately the annualized 66% of Simons’ Renaissance Technologies.

Yet domestically, there’s no quantitative company achieving a compound annual return of over 50%, as the A-share market is quite unique...

Hence, Han Lie doesn’t have high expectations for it—stable profitability, adding a product category to the company’s lineup, and enhancing the company’s tech profile.

Improving the profitability ceiling is not your responsibility; leave it to me...

Jack Yang, a U.S.-born Chinese math PhD turned finance specialist, presented a lot of technical information in his mix of English and clumsy Chinese before inviting everyone to experiment with trading strategies, receiving enthusiastic responses from all.

Great, everyone is energetic and willing to embrace the future, showcasing much improved quality compared to the previous motley crew.

Next, logistics manager Zhao Zhongshi, legal assistant Lü Shuli, compliance director Gao Yuan, and sales and customer service manager Lan Xin spoke one after another, fully demonstrating their personalities and work styles.

Among them, Zhao Zhongshi’s style was the most striking, perfectly summed up in one word—flattering!

That guy showered Han Lie with so much flattery that it almost dripped...

By the end of the informal meeting, the company formally put its two product lines on the agenda.

One is the stock private equity fund managed personally by Han Lie, and the other is a hybrid tiered fund designed to handle business.

The former is significant; it determines the future of Zhongmei Investments and whether everyone’s normal wages can be paid on time, but their skills are mostly unused.

From preliminary sales to the final investment direction, Han Lie handled it all.

Hmph, just a bunch of errand-running tools...

Then, when legal assistant Lü Shuli presented the meticulously modified and polished five-tier contracts, all the tools were utterly stunned.

Holy crap!

Such an aggressively exploitative contract—it’s unbelievable anyone would actually sign it?!