Dato’ Seri Cheah Cheng Hye
Dato’ Seri Cheah Cheng Hye
Dato' Seri Cheah Cheng Hye, MAoF
Executive Committee Member
Dato’ Seri Cheah Cheng Hye is a professional investor and entrepreneur who co-founded and chaired Value Partners Group Ltd., one of the leading asset management firms in Hong Kong. He was in charge of Value Partners’ asset management and business operations from the firm’s founding in February 1993 until January 2025, when he retired with the title of Honorary Chairman, remaining a substantial shareholder and retaining his Board seat.
Since then, Dato’ Seri Cheah has managed Cheah Capital Ltd., a single-family office in Hong Kong and Singapore which he set up to invest his personal assets. Dato' Seri Cheah is considered one of the leading practitioners of value-investing in Asia and beyond. Value Partners and he personally have received numerous awards- a total of more than 280 professional awards and prizes during the period 1993 to 2024.
From 2017 to 2026, Dato’ Seri Cheah served on the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, which owns the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and London Metals Exchange. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director (INED) and he also chaired the group’s Investment Committee. He retired from the board of Hong Kong Exchanges in 2026 upon reaching his term limit of nine years.
Numerous awards were received by Dato’ Seri Cheah personally, including Asia Asset Management’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2023 and a 2021 award as one of the top 25 leaders in the Asian asset management industry over a quarter century. In the Asian Benchmark Survey 2003, Dato’ Seri Cheah was voted “Most Astute Investor” while in 2007, Finance Asia named him “Capital Markets Person of the Year.”
In 2007, Dato’ Seri Cheah led Value Partners to become Hong Kong’s first listed asset management company.
Prior to starting Value Partners, Dato’ Seri Cheah worked at Morgan Grenfell Group in Hong Kong, where, in 1989, he founded the company’s Hong Kong/China equities research department as the Head of Research and proprietary trader for the firm. Prior to this, he was a financial journalist with the Asian Wall Street Journal and Far Eastern Economic Review, where he reported on politics, business and finance across East and Southeast Asia. Dato’ Seri Cheah served for nine years (from 1993 to 2002) on the Board of Directors (as an Independent Non-Executive Director) of Hong Kong-listed JCG Holdings, a leading microfinance company (a subsidiary of Public Bank Malaysia renamed from 2006 as Public Financial Holdings).
Born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1954, Cheah attended the Penang Free School. Leaving school with a high school diploma in 1971, he joined The Star (Malaysia) newspaper as a reporter, subeditor and editorial writer. In 1974, he travelled from Malaysia to Hong Kong and became a journalist with The Standard, HK-TVB News, The Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. In August 2016, Cheah was conferred the Darjah Gemilang Pangkuan Negeri (DGPN), one of the highest civil honours granted by the state of Penang, Malaysia. The award carries the title "Dato' Seri".
Dato’ Seri Cheah is a member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”) Business School Advisory Council, a Senior Advisor for the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong and Macau), a member of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (“HKTDC”) Belt and Road & Greater Bay Area Committee, a member of the HKTDC Mainland Business Advisory Committee, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Management Association and a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance (“MAoF”). In 2025, he became a Patron of Our Hong Kong Foundation. Dato’ Seri Cheah also served as an Honorary Advisor for the 2026 edition of the Asian Financial Forum held in Hong Kong.
拿督斯里謝清海先生 MAoF
執行委員會成員
拿督斯里謝清海是著名的專業投資人及企業家，他與合伙人共同創辦惠理集團並出任其聯席主席。該集團在香港是領先的資產管理公司。自 1993 年 2 月惠理成立以來，謝先生一直負責管理集團的基金和營運，至 2025 年 1 月起他正式退任集團聯席主席及聯席首席投資總監，但他仍是集團的主要股東並留任於董事會董事職務，並獲委任為榮譽主席。
此後，謝先生開始專注於管理他所成立的單一家族辦公室 - 清海資本（Cheah Capital Ltd.) ，該公司總部設在香港並於新加坡有分公司，主要管理其個人資產。謝先生在亞洲甚至全球都是公認優秀的價值投資者。惠理集團和謝先生個人皆獲獎無數，在 1993 年至 2024 年間獲得超過 280 個殊榮。
自 2017 年至2026年期間，謝先生擔任為香港交易及結算所有限公司的董事。該公司擁有香港交易所和倫敦金屬交易所，他作為獨立非執行董事兼出任投資委員會主席。直至2026年，謝先生在九年任期屆滿後退任港交所的董事職務。
多年來謝先生獲獎無數，當中包括 2023 年《亞洲資產管理》雜誌頒發的「最佳終身成就獎」及 2021 年頒發的亞洲資產管理行業二十五載「25 位頂尖領䄂」之一。2007 年，他獲《金融亞洲》期刊評為「資本市場年度人物」；2003 年，曾獲《Asset Benchmark Survey》選為「最精明投資者」。
在 2007 年，謝先生帶領惠理集團成為首家在香港上市的本地資產管理公司。
創辦惠理之前，謝先生曾任職於投資銀行「摩根建富」在香港的分公司，並於 1989 年創立該公司的香港/中國股票研究部門，並出任其研究及自營交易部主管。此前，他曾在《亞洲華爾街日報》及《遠東經濟評論》擔任財經記者，報導東亞及東南亞的政治、商業及財經新聞。 1993 至 2002 年九年間，他曾任香港上巿公司「日本信用保証集團有限公司」的獨立非執行董事。該公司是一家領先的小額貸款公司，附屬於 2006 年更名為「大眾金融控股有限公司」的馬來西亞大眾銀行。
謝先生在 1954 年出生於馬來西亞檳城，曾就讀於「檳城大英義學」 ( Penang Free school)。於 1971 年中學畢業後，他在馬來西亞《星報》先後任職記者、副編輯及社論作者。在 1974年，他前往香港，分別於《英文虎報》、電視廣播有限公司新聞部和《遠東經濟評論》任職新聞記者。2016 年 8 月，謝先生獲檳城授予最高民事榮譽之一的「檳城護國輝煌勳章」 (DGPN)，獲得「拿督斯里」頭銜。
謝先生現為香港科技大學商學院顧問委員會成員、馬來西亞商會（香港及澳門）資深顧問、香港貿易發展局（貿發局）「一帶一路及大灣區委員會」委員、貿發局「內地商貿諮詢委員會」委員、香港管理專業協會會士及香港金融學院會員。2025 年，他成為「團結香港基金」的贊助人。他也在香港舉行的「2026 年亞洲金融論壇」擔任名譽顧問。