CLSA goes to Hollywood in finance's showbizzy talk fest
Stockbroker CLSA is gearing up for its 17th annual Hong Kong investor forum, which it says will be its biggest with 1,380 investors from 30 countries and 500 chief executives and chief financial officers representing 200 firms from 20 nations.
CLSA likes to add a bit of brio to these events as a diversion from the endless discussions on how to make money. So ironically there will be a showing of the new Oliver Stone film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which, if it is anything like the original Wall Street, pans the finance industry and the film's hero Gordon Gekko, who ironically has come to be embraced by the industry. Michael Douglas, who plays Gekko, was due to speak at the forum but had to pull out after he discovered he had throat cancer.
His place has been filled by Hollywood heavyweight Francis Ford Coppola (pictured), who will give a talk on the business of making movies. Is CLSA becoming the Hollywood of the finance industry?
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