Robert Hsu

Robert Hsu

InvestorPlace Contributor

Robert was born in Taiwan, speaks Mandarin fluently and reads and writes Chinese. But what really sets him apart from other investing experts is his rich history of investment success and his understanding of what’s happening across Asia today. While employed with Goldman Sachs, Robert learned a great deal about international markets, equities, interest rates, currencies and commodities markets. Since then Robert has started his own money management firm, Absolute Return Capital Advisors.

In order to stay on top of investment opportunities across Asia, Robert visits China regularly, as well as employs a boots-on-the-ground team of analysts in China to provide him with up-to-the-minute details on what is happening.

Robert’s advice is that now, more than ever, investors looking to build their wealth must look outside of the U.S. for real and sustainable growth. To attain superior absolute return in the new century, buy-and-hold U.S. stocks are just not going to deliver the profits that he thinks every investor should expect. And in looking to make the biggest returns, Robert’s found that the single best place to find great returns is China, where the economy continues to grow almost 10% a year.

Recent Articles

Best Way To Play China’s Currency Is Gold, Not Renminbi ETN (CNY)

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

A lot of investors think that the Chinese currency should appreciate against the dollar and most major currencies, and we agree. It is possible today, even though the currencies are not free-floating, to receive the investment return of the currency rate via the Market Vectors Renminbi/USD ETN (CNY) and the Market Vectors Indian Rupee/USD ETN (INR). Still, I advise against buying those ETNs, even though I am bullish on both the renminbi and the rupee.

3 China Stocks Making Investors a Tidy Sum (PUDA, TRIT, RINO)

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

China now leads the world in the green energy market, recently overtaking the U.S. for the first time. In fact, the money China invested in clean energy reached $34.6 billion in 2009, a sum dwarfing the $18.6 billion invested by the U.S., and far surpassing any other major economy in the world. Looking forward, I expect China will keep its solid lead as the country continues to spend 34% of its massive $586 billion stimulus package on green projects.

China and the U.S. Ease Currency Tensions

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is in China this week, and over the next several days he'll be meeting with Chinese government officials on a host of matters concerning the two nations. At the top of the agenda for these meetings will no doubt be the currency issue. By all accounts, tensions over this issue have definitely eased in front of the Geithner visit. Last Thursday evening there were reports that President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao spoke via telephone for over an hour while Air Force One sat on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, and you can bet that this conversation included a preliminary addressing of the currency issue.

A High-Powered China Energy Play

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

China Integrated Energy (CBEH) is one of the best managed private energy companies in China and a pure play on China's fast growing gasoline demand.

5 Stocks that Prove the China Boom is Alive and Well (CAAS, CTRP, NIV, PUDA, SPU)

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

As an investor in Chinese stocks, I'm constantly bombarded by musings of the country's coming economic bust. Anti-China pundits like to cite the froth in China's housing market, the high vacancy rate in some of the country's newest cities and the recent moves by China's central bank to increase reserve requirements as evidence that the country is on the brink of big economic trouble. I disagree. Stocks like CAAS, CTRP, NIV, PUDA, and SPU show China's strength.

Is the VNM Vietnam ETF a Good Buy?

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

Recently, one of the countries I've been asked about the most is Vietnam. And I'm not surprised, last year the economy was still able to grow by more than 5%, even despite the global economic slowdown. And looking forward, Vietnam is expected to post higher than 8% growth in 2010 and near 8% growth in 2011. That has a lot of investors wondering about the Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM).

ETF Now Lets China Buy the S&P 500

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

There was a time when the buzz around Wall Street was the creation of new ETFs that allowed U.S. investors to easily participate in the booming emerging markets. Well, in an sign of just how far the tables have turned, the buzz now on Wall Street is all about a new China-based ETF that allows Chinese investors to buy the S&P 500.

YUII Woes Show Growing Pains of China Stocks

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

Many fortunes have been made by investors willing to buy Chinese companies whose stocks are listed on U.S. exchanges. But investing in emerging markets and in China is not without its growing pains. Case in point is the recent dust up in the shares of Chinese poultry industry firm Yuhe International (YUII).

Shares of Chinese Insurance Broker CNinsure in the Sweet Spot

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

This Chinese insurance broker is profiting from the flood of surplus cash in China, and shares of this top China stock will likely continue to surge.

Strong Sales of ‘Small Luxuries’ Fuel These 3 China Stocks

By Robert Hsu, InvestorPlace Contributor

By now, nearly everyone is familiar with China's emergence as an economic superpower on the strength of its exports and manufacturing. But did you know that China has now become the world's second-largest consumer of luxury goods? That means big things for consumer stocks WATG, CTRP and CAST.

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