This week’s readings include the transcript of Joseph Tsai speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference, thoughts on the Singapore real estate market from Ong Kang Lin of SiS Asset Management and a short interview with Michelle Leung of Xingtai Capital. Interview with Joseph Tsai: The vice-chairman of Alibaba discusses the Chinese economy, the country’s evolving e-commerce landscape and addresses the concerns of short-sellers. SiSAM […]
Year: 2016
Richard Chandler: Few Bets, Big Bets
Richard Chandler is a New Zealand-born investor and businessman based in Singapore. From 1986 through 2006, he ran Sovereign Global Holdings, a private investment firm, in partnership with his brother. Over 20 years, the Chandlers turned their initial US$10 million investment into almost US$5 billion. They were pioneers in emerging markets investing and their fund was among the first portfolio investors in countries such as […]
Readings For The Week (18/9)
This week’s readings include the monthly newsletters from both James Morton and Rory Dickson, the case for trade reform in Sri Lanka as well as detailed interviews with James Hay and Jim Rogers. Perinvest Asia Dividend Equity Fund update: Monthly investor letter from James Morton of SLAM. Includes thoughts on Yuzhou Properties and Beijing Capital Land. CC Asian Evolution Fund […]
Readings For The Week (11/9)
This week’s readings include a recent interview with Olivier Jolivet (the CEO of Aman Resorts), reflections on the global shift in the balance of power from George Magnus as well as insights into true originality from Wharton professor Adam Grant. You need to instil some confidence: Olivier Jolivet’s reflections and lessons from a career managing across Asia. Whose world is it […]
Where Are They Now?
It has now been over 20 years since “Asia’s Investment Prophets” was first published. In the book, investment analyst and author Claire Barnes profiled seventeen stand-out investors focused on the Asia Pacific region. Given her own track record running the Apollo Asia Fund (which has returned some 22% per annum since inception in 1997), she would […]
Readings For The Week (4/9)
This week’s readings include a second quarter update from Andrew Limond (manager of the Panah Fund), an interview with Louis Gave of GaveKal Research and a Bloomberg piece on the trends shaping the consumer landscape in China. Letter to investors Q2 2016: Update from Andrew Limond, who runs the Panah Fund. The letter includes a section outlining their macroeconomic outlook for Vietnam. Louis […]
Readings For The Week (28/8)
This week’s readings include reflections from the team at Platinum Asset Management on their long term investment in Samsung Electronics, an interview with Joe Studwell about the importance of agriculture in economic development and an Economist piece on the change of mood in Hong Kong over the past few years. Samsung Electronics – twenty years: The investment team at Platinum […]
Singapore Shipping Corporation
Singapore Shipping Corporation (SSC) is an SGX-listed company that operates in two segments: shipping activities (70% of revenue) and agency services (30% of revenue). In its shipping segment, the company purchases pure car & truck carriers and leases them out to blue chip charterers on long term contracts. SSC’s agency segment provides a range of services including terminal operations, logistics, warehousing as […]
Readings For The Week (21/8)
This week’s readings include a look at how Tencent’s WeChat is shaping the future of the mobile internet, Philip Bowring’s thoughts on ethnic diversity and integration in Hong Kong as well as Stephen Roach on the globalisation disconnect. WeChat’s world: How WeChat shows the way to social media’s future. Singapore’s first Olympic gold provides a lesson…: Philip Bowring on how […]
Arisaig: Investing Up The S-Curve
Arisaig Partners is an independent investment management firm founded in 1996. They focus on dominant consumer sector businesses in emerging markets. Their flagship, long-only Arisaig Asia Consumer Fund has ~US$3bn in assets under management and has compounded capital at a low-teens rate of return since inception. They also run an Africa Consumer Fund, a Latin America Consumer Fund and a […]