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The ARCHEA Asia H.E.R.O. Innovators Fund (www.heroinnovator.com) is the only Asian SMID-cap tech-focused fund in the industry. H.E.R.O. stands for “Honorable. Exponential. Resilient. Organization.” and is operationalized into a unique, systematic 4-step investment process to identify the winners. The investment objective seeks to capture long-term investment returns created by disruptive forces and innovation by focusing on high-quality and liquid listed equities in the Asia-Pacific region that ride on and benefit from them. Through our cross-sector and in-depth fundamental research process, the Fund aim to provide access to companies whom we believe are run by high-integrity, honorable and far-sighted owner-operators with a higher sense of purpose in solving High-Value Problems for their target customers and society, and have unique, scalable and wide-moat business models with sustainable competitive advantages and innovative products, services, and processes to create, expand and service their total addressable market, including the resiliency and balance sheet strength to maintain or grow profitability, pricing power and market positions through up/downturns in the economy.

The ARCHEA H.E.R.O. Innovators Tech Fund is a UCITS V fund domiciled in Luxembourg, and is available to both retail and accredited investors in Europe (including Switzerland, Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg) and qualified offshore investors worldwide. UCITS stands for the Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities and is a regulatory framework of the European Commission that creates a harmonized regime throughout Europe for the management and sale of mutual funds. UCITS funds can be registered in Europe and sold to investors worldwide using unified regulatory and investor protection requirements. The ARCHEA Asia HERO Innovators Fund is now in the pre-launch stage, subject to regulatory approval. We will also be registering the funds under MAS CISNET for distribution in Singapore. Our target fund launch date for the Founders’ Series is in September 2018.

Together with my highly experienced business partner Mr. Loo Cheng Guan, we are progressing in our partnership with our Swiss partner Dr. Alain Würgler’s Bellatrix Asset Management to launch the HERO Innovators Fund under their UCITS V umbrella fund structure domiciled in Luxembourg for distribution to retail & qualified investors in Europe, and qualified non-Europe investors worldwide. We have secured capital commitments from several institutional and high net-worth investors. Once we have gotten our ticker code and approval from the regulator for our UCITS fund, interested long-term partners can simply buy or sell units in the fund, just like the buying or selling of listed shares, by approaching any bank of your choice with the ticker code and wire the funds into an independent custodian bank. As a strictly regulated UCITS fund, there is daily liquidity to buy or sell, and we have zero exit fees. If you are interested to participate in the exponential growth of the H.E.R.O. Innovators who are solving real-world high-value problems and have helped create what the world around you looks like today and tomorrow, please contact KB by email or whatsapp.

How to Know If We are Right for Each Other? 

You are an intelligent high net-worth investor, business owner, family office, institutional investor, allocator, or financial advisor who want to:

• You want to learn and be well-informed about disruptive forces and innovation, new technologies and new business models coming up, and the companies that ride on and benefit from them in some of the most promising areas of the economy, and feel more confident in your knowledge in how these innovators are indispensable in the well-being of your daily life.
• Yet, you do not wish to follow the crowd like everyone else to herd in the highly popular mega-cap tech stocks.
• And you definitely do not want to fall for the Next-Big-Thing trap by investing in fads, me-too imitators, cash-burning tech companies, or even in seemingly cutting-edge technologies without the ability to monetize and generate recurring revenue with a sustainable and scalable business model, and you want to know how to distinguish between the true innovators and the swarming imitators.
• You want to be proud of the entrepreneurs and owner-operators running the companies whom you invest in to generate sustainable returns, that they are honorable, high-integrity, far-sighted, and have a higher sense of purpose in solving High-Value Problems for their target customers and society, and have unique, scalable and wide-moat business models with sustainable competitive advantages and innovative products, services, and processes to grow profitably through up/downturns in the economy.

Ready to find out more about H.E.R.O.?

To make an appointment with KB to find out more about the H.E.R.O. investment and business model innovation framework, investment strategy & process, please click here or email kb@heroinnovator.com or whatsapp +65 9695 1860.