Our key members are veterans with expertise gained from international professional firms, and experiences from global financial institutions and Asian boutique asset management firms. The average career history of 20+ years of each key member aggregates into over a century of experiences.
Our experiences gaining from both sell-sell professional firms and buy-side fund managers differentiate our client-service-focus approach with buy-side perspective.
Samuel Choi
Business Development, Compliance and Finance
Samuel is the founder of aiM Group with more than 30 years of experience in financial services industry. He is responsible for developing business and ensuring quality services across all business functions. Samuel is the founder of the Financial Services Practice (“FSP”) of Crowe (HK) CPA Limited (“Crowe (HK)”). Additionally, Samuel is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Vanke Overseas Investment Holding Company Limited (1036.HK). Before founding aiM Group, Samuel has profound experience in key leadership roles of international firms, including serving as the Audit Partner at Deloitte Hong Kong and the Chief Administrative Officer (Asia ex Japan) at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Samuel then served as the Chief Executive Officer of an Asian family office-backed hedge fund management startup, which was subsequently restructured into a private multi-manager platform. Samuel is a Fellow and a Certified Public Accountant (Practising) of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Samuel is a Senior Fellow and a member of the Individual Membership Committee of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. He is also a Senior Member of the Young Executive Committee of Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce.
Chris Ni
Investment
Chris has over 30 years of experience in the investment management industry. Chris’ career began in Taiwan as an analyst with the International Investment Trust Co. and subsequently held top fund management positions, including FAT Management Corp., and ING/Aetna Life Insurance Co. (Taiwan). At Shin Kong Life Insurance Co. Chris managed a USD 40 billion investment portfolio and led the launch of the First Taiwan Hybrid Structure Bond which won two best deal awards in 2005 and “Best Financial Institution of the Year” in 2006. Chris then joined the hedge fund manager backed by an Asian family office as the board director and senior portfolio manager and led the investment team to manage a multi-asset class quantitative hedge fund portfolio. Prior to joining aiM Group, Chris was the partner and portfolio manager of Real Talent Investment Co. where he managed money with a focus on venture capital investment and proprietary algorithm futures trading. Chris holds a BBA degree from the National Chung Hsing University and an MBA from Iowa State University. Chris had served as a consultant to the Taiwan Government Pension Fund as well as the lecturer at the National Taipei College of Business.
Jeffrey Lo
Investment
Jeffrey has over 30 years of Global Markets experience, especially in the banking industry. Prior to joining aiM Capital Consortium, he worked at a number of leading global banks in Hong Kong. Jeffrey has actively participated in currency and money market trading, market making, and arbitrage activities. He was responsible for determining the transfer pricing policy and ensuring liquidity and full compliance of undertakings of the APAC treasury team of Natixis. In addition, he was responsible for the funding and portfolio management in currency and short-term interest rate trading instruments at ABN AMRO, Societe Generale, ICBC Asia, and Natixis S.A.. Jeffrey graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business/Economics and is now a full member of the Treasury Markets Association in Hong Kong.