Most retired accountants look forward to a life of golf and peace and quiet. Not Christopher Ho. Instead, he decided to forego retirement, and start a business in the late 1980s.
I am an accountant, a beancounter, says Ho, sitting in a room decked with plasma TVs, stereos and MP3 players. This is a meeting room in Grande Holdings Kwun Tong HQ in Hong Kong and these are the some of the products of his listed company.
It is a company that many investors have barely heard of, but will know a lot more of soon. At a recent UBS conference designed to highlight Little Acorns, Ho presented his...