Thursday, June 08, 2006

De-stress

Had a discussion earlier on about fixed income fund management, and the respective targets set by the management. Sometimes, these targets don't go hand-in-hand. Whilst discussing, reminded me of a phrase I heard last year, which was quite apt as an analogy:

"Round one take, flat one don't take.
Flat one take, round one don't take.
Round one, flat one, all take."

Translate it into Mandarin, say it out loud quickly with a slight left-right (or vice versa) tilt of your head after each line, and you will get the joke, but no offence to anyone out there. Not meant to be offensive. How I draw parallels:

"Round one" = Target 1
"Flat one" = Target 2

Most times, in order to achieve target 1, target 2 will have to be sacrificed.
To achieve, target 2, target 1 has to be sacrificed.
However, management wants to achieve target 1 and target 2 (hence the last line of phrase).

How?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Left die, right die, centre also die !

Buy die, don't buy also die !

Long cash die, no cash die also die !

What will be the best ?

BE POSITIVE ! DON'T THINK LOH!