Dato‘ Seri CHEAH Cheng Hye
Dato’ Seri CHEAH Cheng Hye is the Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Value Partners Group. He is in charge of Value Partners’ fund management, investment research, business operations, product development and corporate management functions. He sets the Group’s overall business and portfolio strategies.
Dato’ Seri CHEAH has been leading Value Partners since February 1993, when he co-founded the firm with his business partner, Mr V-Nee YEH. He led Value Partners to a successful listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, making Value Partners the first asset management company to be listed in Hong Kong. Dato’ Seri CHEAH has more than 30 years of investment experience and is considered one of the leading practitioners of value investing in Asia and beyond. Together, he and Value Partners have received more than 200 professional awards and prizes since the firm’s inception in 1993.
Dato’ Seri CHEAH was named “Outstanding Manager of the Year – Greater China equity category” in the Fund of the Year Awards 2017 by Benchmark, and co-winner of “CIO of the Year in Asia” along with Mr Louis SO in the 2011 Best of the Best Awards by Asia Asset Management. In 2010, he was named by AsianInvestor as one of the Top-25 Most Influential People in Asian Hedge Funds.
Dato’ Seri CHEAH currently serves as an Independent Non-executive Director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”) and is a member of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”) Business School Advisory Council. He is also the Co-Chairman of The Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong and Macau). He was previously a member of the Financial Services Development Council (“FSDC”) (from February 2015 to January 2019), and a member of the New Business Committee of FSDC (from 2013 to 2018).
In August 2016, Dato’ Seri CHEAH was conferred Darjah Gemilang Pangkuan Negeri (“DGPN”), one of the highest civil honors granted by the state of Penang in Malaysia to recognize exceptional individuals. In the same year, he was named an Honorary Fellow of the HKUST for outstanding achievements.
Prior to founding Value Partners, Dato’ Seri 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 Asia markets.