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Value Partners

Value Partners’s co-founder and co-CIO Cheah Cheng Hye credits his success as a hedge fund manager in part to his years as a journalist. Cheah began his professional career three decades ago as a crime reporter for a Malaysian newspaper and later became a financial journalist for the Asian Wall Street Journal. “Being an ex-journalist helps,” he told Alpha in a 2012 interview. “The raw material of our work is information, and based on synthesizing information we formulate investment strategies and the best stock picking.” The sleuthing skills he honed as a reporter have served him well in digging up information on companies and using it to make profitable investments. His business savvy, combined with that of co-founder V-Nee Yeh, helped Value Partners rack up 63 percent gains in its first year. That success has been fairly consistent: The firm began with just $5 million and last year became...

Back to Hedge Fund 100 Firm Profile Ranking 43. Value Partners / $13.2 billion Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Founded: 1993 2016 Hedge Fund 100 Rank: No. 34 2016 Capital: $15.576 billion 2015 Hedge Fund 100 Rank: No. 52 2015 Capital: $12.898 billion Years on List: 8 Website: www.valuepartners.com.hk Address: 9th Floor, Nexxus Building41 Connaught Road CentralHong Kong Phone: 852-2880-9263 Fax: 852-2523-2686 Other Offices: Shanghai and Taipei

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