After a rather busy 2012, here’s wishing the very best to all my readers for 2013.

This website has now reached a not unreasonable 100,000 page views. You have also accessed ipo-book.com from at least 140 countries and more than 2,100 cities. More than a third of you are regulars, too. Thousands of you are also reading our stories through social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

After a short but well-deserved break, we will return on 31st December with more articles published in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post – and more TV, radio and print interviews with the likes of Bloomberg TV, BBC News, Reuters, CNBC, the Financial Times and RTHK 3.