Value Partners Group Limited is a

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–based

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company.

History

The company was founded in 1993 as a boutique firm by the present Chairman & Co-chief investment officer Dato' Seri Cheah Cheng Hye, and businessman Yeh V-nee, a non-official member of the

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from 2009 to 2012. Value Partners positions itself as a value investor and adopts value investing strategy for its funds. Headquartered in

, Value Partners has offices in

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and

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. It has a global client base and is regarded as one of Asia's largest asset management firms by the industry. Value Partners was listed on the

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(Stock code: 806 HK) in November 2007 and it is the first asset management firm listed in Hong Kong. In 2018, Value Partners was listed among the 200 top-performing public companies on ''

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s "Best Under A Billion list." It dropped off that list in 2019. Value Partners disposed its 49% equity interests in Goldstate Capital Fund Management Co., Ltd. to a company under Yunnan Jiutian Investment Enterprises Ltd in 2015, for a consideration of RMB45 million. In 2019, Value Partners launched an investment fund towards China for

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and European investors after demands for this service had increased. The move comes one year after an assessment by American asset manager

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, which found that Asian investment funds find it difficult to compete in the European market. According to the study, Value Partners only sourced $211 million, accounting for just 1.3% of its total

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. In June 2023, GF Securities announced it would acquire a 20.2% stake in Value Partners.{{cite web , last1=Blott , first1=Thomas , title=Value Partners seals strategic investment from GF Securities , url=https://fundselectorasia.com/value-partners-seals-strategic-investment-from-gf-securities/ , website=Fund Selector Asia , date=5 June 2023

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