When Qiao Ma, Portfolio Manager at Cooper Investors, was an elementary student in China, she and many of the other children in the class were excited about a new handheld gaming device called the Game Boy. Her father, a stock trader, wrote the device off as just a passing fad, convinced that soon the children would forget about the Game Boy. Ma says she learned three important lessons from this early experience; 1) kids will always move onto smarter, more powerful gaming machines, 2) patterns of behaviour can be connected with stocks (in this case, Nintendo, which is up 500% since), and 3) Game Boys, for her generation, had the same significance as books for her father’s.
In this video, Ma discusses how technology today is meeting the same basic human needs that were once addressed by sports, art, and even bars and pubs.
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