PETALING JAYA: Stanley Choi’s increased stake in low-cost carrier AirAsia Group Bhd is no ordinary bet but one where he has factored in calculated risks just like he would in any of his poker games.
The professional poker player and investor from Hong Kong started looking at the aviation industry when it bottomed out between June and July last year and just as how Covid-19 was an unprecedented pandemic, Choi viewed it as an investment opportunity of a lifetime.
And as he hunted for companies to invest in, he realised that AirAsia appealed to him the most in terms of its fundamentals and management style.
Monday, 08 Mar 2021 06:39 PM MYT
An AirAsia logo is pictured at the ticketing counter at Changi Airport in Singapore, December 29, 2014. Reuters pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 AirAsia Group Bhd’s strength in big data makes it an attractive investment portfolio, despite the challenges the aviation industry is facing now, and there are possibilities to increase the stake in the future, said Stanley Choi Chiu Fai who emerged as a substantial shareholder in the company.
“AirAsia’s growing and diversifying business portfolio based on rich and massive data of customers, accumulated over 19 years in the aviation business makes it attractive as data is the next big thing.
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AirAsia Group Berhad welcomes businessman and M&A specialist Dr Stanley Choi as substantial shareholder
AirAsia Group Berhad is pleased to announce that Dr Stanley Choi Chiu Fai has joined the Group as a substantial shareholder via his wholly-owned entity Positive Boom Ltd on 18 February 2021. He acquired 167.1 million AirAsia shares in the first tranche of the private placement, raising his shareholding in the group to 332.5 million shares equating to a 8.96% stake.
Dr Stanley Choi is the Chairman of Head & Shoulders Financial Group, as well as the Chairman and Executive Director of International Entertainment Corporation (IEC), a company listed on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1009.HK). He is also the only co-founding member from Hong Kong for YunFeng Capital - a private equity fund started in 2010 by a group of successful entrepreneurs and influential industry leaders, named after its co-founder Jack Ma Yun, founder of Alibaba Group, and David Y
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KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group expects businessman and M&A specialist Stanley Choi Chiu Fai, who joined the low-cost carrier group as a strategic shareholder to add value to its digital business development in China.