Connecting, Financing and Value-Adding: the Asiasons Way

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.