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Connecting, Financing and Value-Adding: the Asiasons Way

Connecting, Financing and Value-Adding: the Asiasons Way

The Breakfast Grille

June 22, 201225m 57s

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Show Notes

Asiasons Capital Group MD/Co-founder Datuk Jared Lim discusses:

- Founding Asiasons with Datuk Mohammed Azlan Hashim and chartered accountant Ng Teck Wah back in 2007;
- How the group got together - age and cultural differences - circumstances;
- Investment focus - themes - focus;
- Timeframe for exit - prefered routes;
- Originating ideas: how, typically;
- Performance - historically;
- Differentiators;
- Described Malaysia as a “hotbed of business innovation” - details;
- “Active discussions” with several Malaysian companies that it might want to invest in - Insights;
- Deal competition;
- Capital raising - issues;
- Successes - Failures;
- Branding, Design and New Economy strategies - rationale - skills - staffing;
- Asiasons WFG-- or forrmerly Westcomb financial group -- investment advisory;
- Whether background in listing S-Chips - hurt Asiasons' reputation;
- Cambridge-educated son of Malaysia’s former Finance Minister, Tun Daim -Dato Wira Dani Daim - Chairman & Non-Executive Director of Asiasons WFG - implications;
- portfolio: Chaswood - NV - Hi5 - rationale - competition - assets;
- Details - deal flow ;
- Personal - wife - Dian Lee - Country Heights - co-founder of Cleawater - boutique developer - TS Lee Kim Yew - implications.

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