One billion U.S. dollars is probably only ranked 50th in China's Forbes rankings, while in the world's rankings, one billion U.S. dollars is the bottom line. As for the people who are called hidden rich people, isn't Huang Xuan one of them
In any case, having 100 million US dollars at the age of 16 is enough to attract people's imagination.
As for the source of Huang Xuan's assets, all major banks have their own speculations, but there is no doubt that it has a close relationship with the Huang family, or Huang's fund. Some even believe that this is simply Huang's money laundering measures in Brazil. .
But what does that matter? Although people always think that banks are the most trustworthy institutions, bankers can definitely be ranked among the most shameless people in the world. The reason why money laundering industry stays away from the banking industry is not because of their integrity, but because of their greed. No one can I can bear it. The purpose of not disclosing depositors' information is to attract more depositors, and although betraying depositors does not happen often, it is not uncommon at all. At least for Jews in Germany, the prestigious Swiss bank was a pure killer.
Charles V. Dutoit of UBS was a pure banker. While working for a banker, Mr. Dutoit dreamed of one day having the power to exploit others. For this dream, he worked hard - Evil capitalism.
After receiving Huang Xuan's case, Dutoit sensitively discovered the opportunity. The other party was a 16-year-old young man, but he wanted to spend a fortune of 100 million U.S. dollars. It is said that a young man will be happy when he succeeds. Surprisingly, he felt that if he wanted to fulfill his wish of saving enough money to retire before the age of 40, he could achieve it within a reasonable distance, but if he wanted to join the ranks of evil capitalists, he would need to take some risks and make some sacrifices.
After careful consideration, Dutoit believed that Huang Xuan indeed wanted to purchase spot products such as crude oil in large quantities in the short term, and he believed that the only advantage he had over the representatives of the other two banks was that he had more free funds on hand.
Charles V. Dutoit decided to use all the money he managed to buy 100 lots of London North Sea Brent Light Crude Oil for July delivery - the largest of the three standards of oil - costing the bank $900,000. , and then he came to Sao Paulo with the planning book and futures contracts.
Huang Xuan met Charles in the newly rented office space of Hexin Industrial. The office is next to Republic Square, and nearby is the busiest commercial street in Sao Paulo. Li Qing helped him rent a one-story building of more than 5,000 square meters here. But so far, Hexin Industrial has only two employees and one temporary worker. One of them is the front desk and secretary, etc., and the other is responsible for contacting Huang Xuan and various companies, and is also responsible for various decoration matters.
The employees were very efficient. By the time Huang Xuan came here, the office room had been half decorated, but there was only one chair on the entire floor, and there were four people there. Huang Xuan, Charles, a translator, and a lawyer. In the end, the translator carried forward Lei Feng's spirit and took the initiative to give up a bench.
Some episodes did not affect Charles' mood. In fact, all his energy was placed in the leather bag in his hand. If Huang Xuan does not recognize the price of the crude oil futures he purchased, then he must forcefully close the position before the final trading day. Regardless of whether there is a loss or not, what he has done is likely to become unauthorized misappropriation of bank funds. This problem is serious. Small, but it will eventually push him down the capitalist ladder.
Charles took out the prepared information from his bag with a serious look. Since there was no table, he handed it directly to Huang Xuan and said with trepidation: "Mr. Huang, this is the 100,000 barrels of crude oil I purchased at your request. The average price is 9 US dollars per barrel, the day after tomorrow is the final trading day, if you decide to deliver the spot, you must issue documents and provide the delivery location or warehouse location.”
Huang Xuan was very surprised when he took the information from Charles. He only read the previous page and knew that the other party used his own funds to purchase futures. This was completely inconsistent with what they had discussed before. This was equivalent to the bank's purchase. Futures were sold to Huang Xuan, not purchased by an agent.
Although Huang Xuan has just begun to learn these business practices, he can still find the huge differences.
At first glance, Charles's behavior was extremely foolish. This made Huang Xuan couldn't help but stare at Charles for a long time. However, it must be admitted that Huang Xuan was very happy that Charles could complete the commission so proactively. If we follow normal procedures, entrust an investment bank to select futures, make a risk assessment, operate after the employer approves, and finally wait for the end of the trading day to deliver the spot within the specified time, this series of work will take at least 1 week, and Huang Xuan is not sure whether Lorraine's needs have changed during this period.
He didn't want Lorraine to cause another power outage in a certain place during the state of emergency, or even worse happen...
Therefore, after learning that the delivery could be completed within 4 days, Huang Xuan happily nodded and approved Charles's trading behavior. He did not even take a second look at the price. Compared with the importance of Lorraine, the money was completely negligible.
Therefore, in this contract, Charles just took a small risk, and in return, he got Huang Xuan's tendency to a certain extent.
In terms of bankers' understanding of the relationship between risk and return, Charles did a good job.
Charles breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, Huang Xuan's recognition of the transaction itself was half the success. Of course, it was indeed the case.
Carefully handing the contract to the accompanying lawyer, Charles calmed down and said, "Mr. Huang Xuan, this is an acquisition plan professionally planned by our bank for you. Please take a look."
"Oh?" Calculating that the time was only two days, Huang Xuan liked this high efficiency and opened the file with a smile.
A total of 80 million? Seeing this number, Huang Xuan couldn't help but look up at Mr. Dutoit, who looked like an old god and was talking to the lawyer beside him.
Huang Xuan continued to read. Dutoit’s target was the three subsidiaries of Brazil’s Central Electricity Company (Eletrobras) that had been sold—Furnas, Chesf and Eletronorte. Among them, Furnas even has an installed capacity of 8,000MW. Due to Brazil's national policy, both it and chesf were divided into power producers, and Eletronorte was divided into
Most of them were eventually acquired a few years ago by EDP/CPPE, a large power group with a market capitalization of US$7 billion. However, in recent years, under the leadership of CEO Tarona, the entire The group is making slow adjustments.
Dutoit tried to get some remnants from this behemoth, such as the parts of the original Furnas that had not been eaten, and then implemented the plan. He wrote 50 pages eloquently, all of which were in English, and provided a Chinese index. Huang Xuan patiently After listening to Lorraine's explanation for a while, she finally gave up.
This is a professional and complicated plan. Maybe the academic gentlemen in the banking industry have already fallen in love with this method, but Huang Xuan has not yet.
At the end of the document, UBS think tanks made plans for all of Huang Xuan's properties. They suggested splitting Shengfeng into two departments, splitting the farm and sales parts, and listing the former. In addition, the newly purchased Xihuang Industrial and Cabres' warehousing departments will be merged into Hexin Industrial, while the power company will be formed into a new company independently. In this way, the cash generated from the sale of Shengfeng's sales department and Cabres's logistics department can subsidize the cost of the split and merger.
Seeing this, Huang Xuan smiled meaningfully. He finally understood why his mother suddenly laughed when reading documents in the study. He thought there were some interesting topics in those documents, but after reading them, they were all boring. Yes, but now, he finally understands.
"Mr. Dutoit?" Huang Xuan just said in an immature voice.
"Mr. Huang?" Charles, who was communicating with the lawyer, immediately turned his head and adjusted his glasses.
"The spin-off of Saxon and Cabres has been handed over to Citigroup Global Markets. It seems that UBS's plan exceeded its authority."
Ever since Huang Xuan agreed to the futures contract he made, Charles had 90% confidence that the young man in front of him would prefer an efficient team to a cautious team. He decided to throw away everything he had learned in school. According to the banking industry standards, heavy bets are used to inject the last weight into one's own capital.
Charles said calmly: "Mr. Huang Xuan, I believe that the business level of UBS can satisfy you. We are a professional bank and do professional investment business. At the same time, we are very efficient. We can provide you with services at the time you need." Complete your entrustment with minimal fees, and entrusting your assets to our management will definitely bring back the advantages of scale. ”
Huang Xuan really likes Charles' efficiency. In comparison, Aubrey is like a steam train that is short of coal. Although it pulls a lot, it will never reach the station within the time you hope.
However, his mother taught him that it is necessary to buy a guaranteed ticket, but the guaranteed ticket should be bought one at each stop, rather than buying the whole trip at once. Therefore, Huang Xuan closed the folder with Charles' expectant eyes and said: " I hope to see 100,000 barrels of crude oil in storage by the end of this week, and then after that, I believe I will have a higher level of trust in UBS, and of course you will get a $50 million mandate.”
When talking about Union Bank of Switzerland, Huang Xuan paused for a moment. Charles immediately understood that compared to his own plan, his name was obviously more interesting to the other party. Therefore, before seeing the plans of Citibank and other banks, at the moment, This young man is incapable of making decisions.
After thinking about this, Charles stood up and said goodbye calmly, and said: "I will further modify the plan when I go back. I believe that the efficiency of United Bank will satisfy you. In addition, I will send a dedicated person to complete the futures delivery throughout the process, so you can rest assured. Bar."
"Of course." Huang Xuan shook hands with Charles with a mature look. After seeing his mother's workplace style, Huang Xuan unconsciously started to learn from it. (To be continued)