Astronaut Edwin Aldrin’s eyes are set on another distant planet, and to help keep the space exploration fires burning, he has recorded a rap song and published his second memoir 

He has appeared as himself with Homer Simpson on the popular TV series, recorded a rap track Rocket Experience (“All you need is a rocket experience’’) with Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli, written children's books, showed up in an ad campaign featuring a Louis Vuitton travel case, and jousted with Ali G during a chat.
   
On his show Ali G calls him Buzz Lightyear (the Toy Story character), asks him what was it like to walk on the sun, and teases him about Michael Jackson getting all the credit for the Moon Walk, adding “but you's the first geezer to ever do it".

From Left: Judy Yu Hong, Managing Director, Carsac Ltd; Elaine Young, Chief Executive, Shama Serviced Apartments; Shirley Cheung Yuk-shan, Chairman, Sau San Tong Holdings.

Two well-known entrepreneurs and another who ascended to the ranks of senior management are among people we profile in this issue of The PEAK, along with two bankers, as women who represent achievers in business who thrive on challenges.

In the wake of the financial sector shakedown, wealth creators at Deutsche Bank suggest millionaires should look further down the road for greater rewards.

Once upon a time, bankers appeared to have the Midas touch. As economies peaked in 2008, financiers crested high waves, as wealth, like magic beans in a storybook, seemed to multiply, rewarding bankers and their clients.  The Lehman's collapse last September brought the fairytale to an abrupt and unexpected halt. The fallout was  felt across the globe, stirring anger and confusion, as once-respected financial institutions crumbled one after another, exposing failed products, mammoth fraud, and foolish decisions. The months that followed revealed an intimidating climate which flung the finance industry under the microscope.
        
It might be against the odds then, less than a year on from that calamity -- the spark that set off a fire -- to find four calm, affable private wealth managers open to interview. While the public relations departments of many banks decided to batten down the hatches, so to speak, Deutsche Bank decided there are opportunities to explore.  And so a quartet of the bank's senior regional managers in Private Wealth Management, Lok Yim, Patrick Sze, Bonita Chuang and Margaret Kwong, sit assembled in a boardroom at Deutsche Bank's Hong Kong headquarters, chatting like old friends, and waiting for a photo call.