CHEAH Cheng Hye

Chairman & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Value Partners Group

 

Mr. CHEAH Cheng Hye is Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer (“Co-CIO”) of Value Partners Group.  He is in charge of  Value Partners’ operations and is actively engaged in all aspects of the Group’s activities, including investment research, fund management, business and product development, and corporate management.  He sets the Group's overall business and portfolio strategy.  (Note:  In July 2010, Mr. Louis So was promoted to become Co-CIO of Value Partners, working alongside Mr. CHEAH.)   Mr. CHEAH has been in charge of Value Partners since he co-founded the firm in February 1993 with his business partner, Mr. V-Nee YEH. Throughout the 1990s, he held the position of Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director, responsible for managing both the firm’s funds and business operations. He led Value Partners to a successful listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, the first and only asset management company listed in Hong Kong.  Mr. CHEAH has more than 30 years of investment experience and is considered one of the leading practitioners of value-investing in Asia and beyond. He and Value Partners have received numerous awards in recognition of this.   Mr. CHEAH was named in October 2010 by AsianInvestor as one of the Top-25 Most Influential People in Asian Hedge Funds. In 2009, he was named by AsianInvestor as one of the 25 Most Influential People in Asian Asset Management. He was also named "Capital Markets Person of the Year" by FinanceAsia in 2007, and in October 2003 he was voted the "Most Astute Investor" in the Asset Benchmark Survey.   Prior to starting Value Partners, Mr. CHEAH worked at Morgan Grenfell Group in Hong Kong, where, in 1989, he founded the Company's Hong Kong/China equities research department as the Head of Research and proprietary trader for the firm. Prior to this, he was a financial journalist with the Asian Wall Street Journal and Far Eastern Economic Review, where he reported on business and financial news across East and Southeast Asian markets.