That lifted the share price of his Hong Kong-listed real estate-led flagship Wharf Holdings by 77% in 2012, triple the rise last year in the property-heavy Hang Seng stock index.
So popular, in fact, that the market's red chip index has rocketed over 80% since hitting bottom in mid-January, compared to the blue-chip Hang Seng Index's 40% gain over the same period.
All that will weigh heavily on the bourse, and, current bargains aside, no one expects the blue-chip Hang Seng Index to recover its August record closing high of 16, 673 any time soon.
Shares in Asia also closed down sharply, with Japan's main Nikkei index suffering its biggest one-day drop since the 1987 stock market crash and Hong Kong's Hang Seng slumping to a three-year low.
The Hang Seng index of 33 blue-chip companies is already trading near its four-year lows.
Wall Street's performance followed a rebound on world markets that saw Japan's Nikkei up 6.4 percent and Hong Kong's Hang Seng post its biggest single-day gain in more than a decade.
Old people are part of the action everywhere--at magazine photo shoots and as Hang Seng day traders or venture capital angels.
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Japan's Nikkei Stock Average fell 0.5% for a third-straight day, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index shed 1%.
Over the same period, the Hang Seng Index has risen 14%, reflecting foreign-investor optimism about China's long-term prospects.
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Hong Kong, where nearly half the market value is accounted for by shares of mainland companies, the benchmark Hang Seng index has been up by 27% year-to-date, twice the gain of the Dow Jones industrials in the United States.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and India's Sensex index both hit 52-week highs, climbing 0.6% and 1.2%, respectively.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1.3%, snapping a four-session losing streak.
But while the Hang Seng has recovered to within 30% of its August 1997 all-time high, the red chip index is still 57% off its peak.
Over the past year the stock price of Hong Kong-listed VTech has more than doubled, at a time when the local Hang Seng index has plummeted and local real estate values have collapsed.
One of Thursday's worst-performing stock markets in the region was Hong Kong's, where the Hang Seng Index dropped 2% to 19025.11, dragged down by bank, telecom and consumption stocks.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index has gained 17.6 per cent this year, making it the best-performing major market in the world.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is currently trading at 10.3 times expected earnings, compared with a ten-year average of 14.2 times.
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