Financial Mandarin Coaching for Asset Managers

1. Goal and Objectives:

This practical Financial Mandarin Program is specially designed for Asset Managers. The focus of this program is on the mastery of conversational business Mandarin, with special reference to financial and banking terminology related to asset management. 

The course objective is to enable asset managers to understand daily business Mandarin and communicate more effectively with their Mandarin-speaking clients and counterparts in Mainland China and Taiwan.

2. Topics to be Covered:

a)  Why do we call the Chinese language 'Mandarin' in the first place?
b)  Difference between China's putonghua, Taiwan's guoyu and Singapore's huayu.
c)  Understanding a comprehensive list of financial terminology.
d)  Asset management, a macro view in Mandarin phrases and terms.
e)  Social etiquette phrases for daily correspondence.
f)  Chinese idioms with reference to merger and acquisition, asset management and other investment philosophies.
g)  Mastering banking product-related terms.
h.  Corporate finance: Assist a Taiwanese company seek secondary listing in Singapore.
i)   How to say 'bonus issue' and 'rights issue' in Mandarin?
j)   Technical asset management terminology: Explaining the duration of a bond to Chinese investors.
k)  Working out an agreement with a Chinese commercial bank to market your products in China.
l)   Understanding of e-banking among the Chinese-educated.
m) Securities, bonds and equities: How to can tell which is which in Mandarin? 
n)  How to say 'corporate governance' and 'due diligence' in Mandarin?
o)  Explaining your fee structure.
p)  More on risk disclosure.
q)  Mood and Market sentiments. Is the current market sustainable?
r)   Business negotiation: explain LBO to a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
s)  Understand a Chinese corporate client's organizational chart and designations.
t)   Reading a Chinese company's annual report.
u)  Role-playing: 

   - Meeting a customer seeking listing status in Hong Kong.
   - Explaining your financial programs to your private bankers in China.
   - Common client concerns and responses

3. Methodology and Course Structure

In this 36-hour intensive course, the focus is on the mastery of Mandarin financial terminology, scenario-based role-play and appropriate daily social conversation to enable effective communication with your Chinese clients. 

The coaching is self-paced to accommodate the student's busy schedule. All teaching materials are highly customized on a confidential basis. The learning approach is thus, highly personalized to suit the starting level and needs of busy executives. Coaching sessions are treated in strict confidence with focus on building a strong learning relationship between the teacher and the student.

4. Course Fees and Date of Commencement

5. About the Company and the Teacher 

Khaw and Sons has been providing professional Mandarin coaching, confidential legal and financial translation and interpreting services to local and foreign financial institutions since 1990. Our regular clients include DBS, OCBC, UBS, Credit Suisse, GIC, Temasek Holdings, Citibank, Cisco Systems, Motorola and Henderson Asset Management. 

Khaw Wei Kang, the Managing Director of Khaw and Sons, will be the anchor teacher of this program. Born in Shanghai and educated in Nanjing, Hong Kong and London, Wei Kang is a bilingual consultant specializing in coaching senior banking executives and government officials. Besides language coaching, Wei Kang currently serves as the certified legal and financial English-Chinese translator for DBS and UBS. Before he set up Khaw and Sons in 1990, Wei Kang worked as the correspondent and Executive Translator with The Straits Times and used to be a part-time lecturer in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Extramural Studies. 

Khaw and Sons Pte Ltd
96 Robinson Road, SIF Building 
#03-03, Singapore 068899

For more details, you may visit our website at http://www.khawsons.com
or contact us at 65388554 or Fax:65388547
You can also email us at khawsons@singnet.com.sg