Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3085 Treating Employees as Investors

Senior Sister Zhenyu works in New York.

She controls three companies.

They are Pluto Capital, Neptune Capital, and the Zhou family fund.

The three companies share one office.

There are 16 employees in total.

She has been quite distressed recently.

Because Ricks, a financial manager she relied on, submitted his resignation report.

Zhou Buqi came to New York this time mainly to participate in Alibaba's listing. After all, Ziweixing International will play a very important role in Alibaba's IPO because according to the terms of Yahoo and Alibaba, it will be the largest investor in the issuance of old shares.

Ziweixing International will take out 1.18 million shares of Alibaba and issue them to the market.

This time, Alibaba will issue a total of 2.62 million shares in its IPO, of which only 1.49 million shares will be issued, and most of the rest will come from Ziweixing International. In other words, in Alibaba's IPO, the money from the sale of the 1.49 million shares issued will belong to Alibaba, while the money from the sale of the 1.18 million shares from Ziweixing International will belong to Ziweixing International.

On the surface, Boss Ma is the big winner.

In fact, there is boss Zhou hidden behind this. He acquired Yahoo two years ago after such complicated planning, and this effort cannot be in vain.

So this is very important.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu also wants to get involved, because in addition to Ziweixing International, the Zhou family also holds nearly 3 million shares of Alibaba.

"Ali's IPO is different from Ziweixing's. The specific issue price may have to wait until tomorrow morning to be determined." Senior Sister Zhenyu obviously knows more about finance and financial knowledge than Zhou Buqi. "After all, for American investors, Alibaba's listing is too risky. With such a high market value and stock price, plus the current geopolitical risks, the situation may change suddenly overnight."

Zhou Buqi nodded. "So, Ziweixing chose the right time to go public last year! If it was this year, it might be more troublesome than Alibaba!"

This year, relations between the East and the West have become tense due to Russia's invasion of Crimea.

This will naturally affect the financial markets.

Alibaba is a super giant with a market value of more than 2000 billion US dollars. All parties will be cautious about an IPO of this level.

Wall Street does not want to harm the interests of American investors, and Alibaba does not want the issue price to be suppressed by Wall Street. Therefore, the specific issue price will be determined at the opening of the market tomorrow morning based on the real-time international situation and capital market dynamics.

Zhen Yu said softly, "I don't think there will be any trouble with Alibaba's listing, but I have some minor troubles here."

Zhou Buqi understood that women always need men to love them, so he walked over and sat with her, smiling and holding her hand, "I know, let's go to your room tonight."

"What are you talking about? Not this."

Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at him.

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "What is that?"

Zhen Yu said, "My financial manager, Ricks, has applied for resignation. I tried to persuade him, but he was determined to leave. I really can't leave him now. It's September, and the annual audit will be done soon. If I change the financial manager temporarily, Neptune Capital will be in trouble."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What does he do?"

Zhen Yu said: "The person who helps me manage Neptune's business is a very important assistant of mine. His annual salary has exceeded 400 million US dollars. I don't know what he is not satisfied with."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's not the money that matters to me!"

"What should we do?"

"It's actually a concept of human resources management. Employees are divided into two categories, ordinary employees and core employees. The distinction between outsourced employees and regular employees is popular in China now. You should treat core employees as investors in the company. You are responsible for your investors and their appreciation."

"OK."

"This Rex you're talking about, he must feel that he has no future in Neptune and has lost his room for growth."

"Yes, it is like that."

Zhen Yu nodded seriously. Seeing her so calm, Zhou Buqi guessed something and laughed, "Good Senior Sister, are you setting a trap for me? If you have something to say, just tell me directly. You know I hate using traps the most."

"I'm telling you something serious!"

Zhen Yu slapped him in annoyance.

"Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Zhou Buqi didn't believe that such a small matter could stump Senior Sister Zhen Yu. She and Shi Jinglin were strong women who were the pillars of the family.

Zhen Yu said, "How about...how about allocating $1 million from Neptune Capital and giving it to Ricks, so that he can truly fulfill the responsibilities of an investment manager? Pluto and Neptune are now fulfilling your will. After buying the stocks, they have not moved at all, without any adjustments. For investment managers, watching the stock changes every day and then doing the accounts every day, this kind of work lacks growth potential."

Pluto Capital and Neptune Capital are private equity funds established by Zhou Buqi a few years ago.

The investment strategy is simple.

He bought high-growth technology stocks such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Adobe, and then did not move them, holding them for a long time and waiting for them to appreciate. Zhou Buqi earned high investment returns from them, which was equivalent to picking up 20 to 30 billion US dollars every year.

However, such an investment strategy is too unfriendly to investment managers.

They are like fools.

All I do every day is count the accounts, how much I’ve lost and earned, and write financial reports to send to investors. These are all the most low-level jobs.

As an investment manager, the most important job should be stock selection!

They should keep buying low and selling high, which shows their level.

Long-term value investments are difficult to demonstrate their abilities. Without opportunities for experience, there are no channels for personal growth, and excellent managers will naturally want to leave.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu actually has a solution.

Just take out 1 million US dollars and operate it alone.

By handing it over to the investment manager, letting him go out and operate in the market and giving him the opportunity to gain experience, she can stabilize people's hearts and retain senior talents who can provide her with great help.

Zhou Buqi asked: "How much money is in the account now?"

Zhen Yu said softly: "According to today's prices, the size of Pluto Capital is 194 billion US dollars, and the value of Neptune Capital is 248 billion US dollars."

“It’s already such a large scale…”

"Well, you have a good eye. The stocks you selected have grown too fast in recent years. This is why we have to take profit dividends every year. Otherwise, the value of the assets would be even higher now."

"Then let's do it!" Zhou Buqi was in a good mood. "The scale is already 200 billion US dollars... Neptune Capital and Pluto Capital each put out 1 million US dollars to give senior talents to operate independently. This is negligible. Maybe there will be a genius pitcher, and we can make a little more money."

Zhen Yu couldn't help laughing and said angrily, "What are you talking about? Don't look down on others. My two financial managers are both top students. One graduated from Yale and the other graduated from Harvard."

Zhou Buqi curled his lips and said, "What Yale or Harvard? Can your stock picking strategy be better than mine?"

"So I'll do it?" Senior Sister Zhen Yu was very happy. "If such an opportunity can be provided, Ricks will definitely withdraw his resignation report. He actually doesn't want to leave. I can see that."

Zhou Buqi looked at her strangely, "Just do it, it's just a small matter, why are you so upset?"

Zhen Yu said angrily, "You, the master, set the rules. No one is allowed to adjust your stock selection. How dare I change it without your approval?"

Zhou Buqi cleared his throat and said pretentiously: "Then it depends on your performance. Serve me well tonight. If you feel comfortable, I will approve it."

"Virtue!"

Zhen Yu snorted lightly, stood up and left.

When she reached the door, she turned back to look at him and said, "I'll go back to the room to make arrangements. Come here quickly."

Zhou Buqi said, "I know. I'll call Guo Pengfei and find out about the situation of WeChat merchants. Boss Ma has set his sights on WeChat merchants. There are all kinds of fake and inferior products that lack supervision, which has a very bad impact."