Seng Chong YEO – Yeoman Capital Management
The company applies a traditional value investment methodology focused on listed equities in the Asia ex-Japan environment with track record of just under 20 years at end 1H 2017. Cumulative investment returns over the period was +1008.64% implying an annualized compounding rate of return of +13.01% nett of all fees, in SGD terms with dividends re-invested. This compares well against the Index which returned +145.39% cumulatively or +4.67% annualized over the same period. The company also manages a value mandate for a Japan dedicated fund which had positive track record of more than 6 years at 1H 2017. He earned an engineering degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, worked as an engineer for the first 5 years of his career, joined a Singapore statutory board which required a diplomatic posting to China for another 5 years followed by 10 years in corporate positions in marketing, business development and general management for 3 large Singapore companies before setting up Yeoman Capital Management in 1999. Prior to that he did not work in the financial services sector.