1. Professional Qualification - Chartered Financial Analyst [CFA Institute]
2. Degree - Economics, specialising in Accounting and Finance [London School of Economics and Political Science, London United Kingdom]
Working Experience
Alvin Lim has been with CVC for over 5 years joining in 2016 and currently heads up Singapore and Malaysia. Prior to joining CVC, he has more than 20 years of experience in the investment banking sector advising clients on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Divestitures, Leveraged Financings, Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets transactions across a wide variety of sectors in Asia and Europe. Alvin has a BSc Economics degree from the London School of Economics specialising in Accounting and Finance and he is also a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst. Alvin began his career with the Corporate Finance division of Coopers and Lybrand before joining the Asian M&A team at Schroders International Merchant Bankers (Schroders) in Singapore. He subsequently moved to London, UK with Schroders and became part of the Citigroup Investment Banking team when it acquired Schroders in 2000. In the UK, Alvin worked on a variety of European cross border transactions before returning to Singapore in 2004 to join Ascott Singapore for a brief stint as Vice President of Business Development. He then joined the Investment Banking division of HSBC where he headed the Southeast Asian team before he left in 2016. At HSBC, he was also part of the Singapore Executive Committee and looked after the entire Southeast Asian operations ranging from regulatory, risk and strategy functions. In his current role at CVC, Alvin is responsible for all activities within Singapore and Malaysia. He led the investment into Munchys in 2018 and successfully exited with the sale to URC in 2021. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Munchys driving value creation at the company.
Directorship of Public Companies
1. TradePlus S&P New China Tracker MYR 2. TradePlus S&P New China Tracker USD 3. TradePlus Shariah Gold Tracker 4. TradePlus NYSE FANG+ Daily (2x) Leveraged Tracker 5. TradePlus NYSE FANG+ Daily (-1x) Inverse Tracker 6. TradePlus HSCEI Daily (2x) Leveraged Tracker 7. TradePlus HSCEI Daily (-1x) Inverse Tracker 8. TradePlus DWA Malaysia Momentum Tracker 9. TradePlus MSCI Asia ex Japan REITs Tracker
