How We Work – Our Strategy

At UOBVM, we believe in building a long-term relationship with our portfolio companies, viewing them as partners. We invest in growing companies, with proven track record in industries that benefit from emerging markets such as China and the ASEAN economies. The ideal entrepreneurs that we fund are those with visions and values that we share so that we may proactively work with their companies to create value for the benefit of all parties.

Ultimately, the main preoccupation and objective of our Funds is to achieve long-term capital appreciation that is sustained by a diversified portfolio of private equity investments in the ASEAN-China region.

ASEAN-China’s continual growth
The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area offers plentiful opportunities, given its 1.9 billion consumers and a combined GDP of approximately US$5.3 trillion in 2009. It also has a combined external trade of over US$3.6 trillion, as of December 2008.

ASEAN’s proximity to China, and its abundance of natural resources and industrial capabilities, has made ASEAN a vital trading partner to China and a strong pillar of support for China’s long term economic growth. In 2008, bilateral trade between ASEAN and China hit US$192.5 billion.

Our funds and investments are positioned to capitalize on opportunities resulting from the continual economic expansion in the “ASEAN-China Growth Corridor”. The ASEAN-China Growth Corridor comprises the ten ASEAN countries and the People’s Republic of China.