Investing, Asia and Community action – an interview with Bill Hayton

Investing is intrinsically linked to global politics, industry, history and culture and the relationship between these factors is what makes it such a fascinating topic, besides a potentially very rewarding process. Gordon Kearney, Managing Director of Fiducia, recently had a conversation with Bill Hayton, one of the trustees of our charity of year, Citizens Advice Colchester (CAC), and also a prolific author and former BBC reporter in Vietnam. The author of three books on Asia, one of which is ‘The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia’ – a book which raises some interesting themes and questions regarding investing today – we felt this conversation with Bill would be an interesting share for clients and anyone with a global outlook.

Bill worked as a television and radio journalist from 1995 until 2020, for most of that time with BBC News. He was the