Howel Thomas     Howel Thomas is the Chief Executive Officer of Wykeham Capital Limited, which is the Investment Manager of the Wykeham Capital Asia Value Fund.   He is authorised by the Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission to conduct Type 9 Regulated Activities in Asset Management. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from The London School of Economics & Political Science.    Upon graduating from LSE Howel joined Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) Limited in Hong Kong where he held a number of positions in the derivatives research and sales departments. In 1999 he believed that the Korean derivatives markets were overlooked by the conventional investment community and he moved to South Korea and became the first foreigner to work on the Korean Futures Exchange. The Korean equity futures and options market subsequently became one of the world’s largest futures & options markets.   From 2001 he was Head of Futures & Options for CLSA where he was responsible for the company’s futures & options businesses in India, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea. Whilst Head of Futures & Options his team consistently held the greatest market share for options trading in the Hong Kong listed options market.   From 2005 to 2009 he ran two highly successful private property companies in Hong Kong having identified a mispriced niche in the local real-estate market. These businesses focused on what were then unfashionable and under-researched property assets.   His companies bought and improved neglected properties, turning them into much sought-after character apartments for young professionals. After demonstrating their income potential the properties were sold as high yield investments to both local and foreign investors to realise their full value.   After several years and over fifty successful projects the wider market began to take note of these opportunities, which resulted in a rapid maturing of the market and a sharp decline in the risk-reward offered by such investments. Howel then turned his focus to finding another area of undervalued investment with which to continue his objective of growing his private capital with well-managed risk. This resulted in his current role, investing in deeply undervalued equity securities in Asia using a value-orientated approach.   After a period of managing his own capital in these situations and after deciding there was a significant long term future in this area he formed a private pool of capital from friends and family in May 2010 to fully capitalise on these opportunities. In October 2010 these investments were restructured into an open-ended Cayman registered Fund, which was launched as the Wykeham Capital Asia Value Fund.

http://hk.linkedin.com/pub/howel-thomas/0/904/195

http://www.facebook.com/howel.thomas