Andre Lee - Early life
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Andre Lee - Early life

Peregrine's last days, by Andre Lee

First start in investment banking

Pioneering the Asian bond business

Leaving Lehman

Building the business at Peregrine

The politics of Peregrine

The approach of the Asian financial crisis


You have moved several times in your life between America and Asia. What was your up-bringing like? I was born in New York city and I moved when I was five years old to Korea and at that time - in 1968 - Korea was only barely beginning some sort of industrial development. Electricity failures were common. If you could find Coca-Cola you were quite lucky. Finding any imported goods at all was almost impossible unless you went to the army base. In those first years in Korea I was, I think, very integrated within Korean society. Then we moved to an area where foreigners lived. I started going to the department of defence school on the army base and friends began to change and speak English, so life was kind of sheltered for a while. Then in high school I transferred to an international school, because my father had left the civil service and was starting business on his own as a lawyer, so that exposed me much more to many Korean Americans.


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