Investment Advice

Ong Tee Chin (“Ong”) has a Bachelor of Pharmacy, majoring in Pharmaceutical Science from University Science Malaysia and a Bachelor of Laws from University of London. A Fellow Member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (“ACCA”), member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants (“MIA”), Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (“CIMA”), a graduate member of Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“MICPA”), is a CFA® charter holder, a certified Financial Risk Manager (“FRM”) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and a charter holder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (“CAIA”) Association. He was also the prize winner for Advance Taxation, Malaysian variant conducted by ACCA in December 2002. Also, he possesses a capital market representative license from Securities Commission Malaysia required for conducting advisory work on corporate finance.

Ong’s previous experience include an attachment with one of the Big Four International Accounting Firm and was a finance director for a number of listed companies with operations in Malaysia and Asia Pacific. His past eight years of experience was heading a licensed corporate finance company in Malaysia, providing corporate finance advisory functions in relation to equity valuation, expert report, independent advice letters and feasibility reports for a diverse range of industries such as energy, plantation, mineral, property development, manufacturing, aviation and insurance sector.

Faris Azmi Abdul Rahman (“Faris”) has obtained Bachelor of Commerce majoring Applied Accountancy from Bond University, Queensland Australia. He is a fellow member of Certified Practicing Accounts (“CPA”), Australia. He is currently pursuing the Chartered Islamic Professional Certificate with INCEIF.

He was attached to Arthur Andersen conducting statutory audit, analytical review and conducting risk analysis on clients. Thereafter, he has taken regulatory and compliance role in Securities Commission from 2002 to 2004, where Faris is involved in vetting corporate proposals for applicants seeking for Initial Public Offer (“IPO”), fund raising, restructuring of listed and unlisted public companies in line with the requirements of the SC Guidelines, and vetting of prospectuses for public offering. Thereafter, he has moved into commercial practices taking senior management role in Finance. He was a Finance Director in Coal FE Resources Ltd, a position he held from August 2006 until July 2014, where Faris was responsible for the IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Prasenjit K Basu was Chief Economist for South-east Asia and India at Credit Suisse First Boston and Chief Asia Economist at Daiwa Securities for 5 years each. He had briefer stints (1.5-4 years each) as Global Head of Research at Maybank Kim Eng, Head of Malaysia research and Chief ASEAN Economist at Macquarie Securities, Director of Asia Macroeconomics at UBS Securities, and Director of the Asia Service at Wharton Econometrics.He currently runs an economics consultancy (Real-Economics) and is an Insight Provider at Smartkarma (Singapore) and OHM Research (Brazil). He is also a consultant to the ADB’s independent evaluation department. PK has taught Macroeconomics at the SPJain School of Global Management in Singapore and Dubai, and a course on Asia’s economies for 2 years at ESSEC Asia Pacific Business School (Singapore). He has dual Masters degrees in Public Administration and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA (Hons) in Economics from St Stephen’s College, Delhi. His book on the modern economic and political history of the whole of Asia, “Asia Reborn” won the Best First Book award at the Tata Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest (2018h and a bronze award at Singapore’s Golden Door awards for non-fiction writing.