Philippe Espinasse, former investment banker and Author of "IPO: A Global Guide says that although Asian banks are sitting on a very big IPO pipeline, many of these transactions need to be restructured.

Christopher Ferrarone, Global Equity Strategist, UBS says that ECB's "Outright Monetary Transactions" programme is meaningful and that Europe's recovery will continue unless something drastic happens in Greece or Spain.

Mats Olsson, Head, North East Asia Region, Ericsson says Asia will play a very important role in the adoption of new mobile technologies. He expects his industry's prospects to improve as the adoption of 4G picks up.

Tom Eshelby, Residential Director, London Portfolio, Land Securities discusses the investment opportunities for property in the British capital.

Adrian Mowat, Chief Asian & Emerging Markets Equity Strategist, JP Morgan Securities Asia Pacific says India is at the top of his list of investment destinations next year due to its currency and low interest rate environment.

Nathan Bell, Research Director, Intelligent Investor thinks Australia's top banks are unlikely to raise fresh capital as that would impact dividends. He adds that cutting dividends is tantamount to heresy in Australia.

Jeffrey Christian, Founder & Managing Director, CPM Group says investors are growing extremely cautious about gold, resulting in selling as prices strengthened in recent weeks.

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Larry McDonald, Senior Director, Credit Sales & Trading, Newedge Group says the recent market sell-off is not as serious as previous ones as it is not systemically driven.

David Dietze, President & Chief Investment Strategist, Point View Wealth Management said Hewlett Packard's valuations are very attractive as it is trading at 4 times earnings and 6 times free cash flow.

Simon Grose-Hodge, Head of Investment Advisory, Singapore, LGT Bank says investors cannot draw comparisons between Olam and Sino-Forest given Olam's foundation as a Singapore-regulated company.

Paul Louie, Head of Regional Property Research, Asia ex-Japan, Nomura says that Hong Kong's property market will stall next year with expectations for single digit growth.

Paul Gambles, Managing Partner, MBMG International talks about Greece and its debt sustainability issue amid ongoing Eurogroup discussions over the next tranche of aid for the country.

Tom Price, Global Commodity Analyst, UBS AG explains why he has a price target of $1,900 per ounce for gold in mid-2013.

Paul Gambles, Managing Partner, MBMG International thinks the U.S. should go off the fiscal cliff. He says avoiding it is just kicking the can down the road and that a recession is what its economy needs.

Paul Smith, Asia Pacific MD of the CFA Institute discusses the new trends emerging in the financial services industry. He thinks it includes whistle-blowing, and a lack of fear among traders to speak out.

Yoshito Sakakibara, Executive Director, Investment Research, JP Morgan Asset Management says there's no doubt that Japan's economy is weakening. He adds that any policy that will help support growth will be badly needed.

Sebastien Galy, Senior Currency Strategist, Societe Generale and Paul Gambles, Managing Partner at MBMG International discuss dollar direction on the pretext of a resolution to the fiscal cliff.

Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister, Australia says that the way to resolve Japan and China's Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute is to "buy time". He further discusses the resilience of the Australian Labor Party while sharing about his life beyond being prime minister.

Kirk Yang, Head of Asia Tech Hardware Research, Barclays and Geoffrey Crothall, Spokesman, China Labour Bulletin discuss China's role as a world manufacturing hub in view of the mass labor unrest in the country's major supplier to Apple, Foxconn.