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伟大的华裔--Michael Lee-Chin
Michael Lee-Chin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search Michael Anthony Lee-Chin (born 1951, Port Antonio, Jamaica) is the CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. A third-generation Chinese Jamaican, Lee-Chin was born to a half-Chinese, half-black father, Aston Lee, who owned a grocery, and a half-(Hakka) Chinese, half black mother, Gloria. Lee-Chin spent much of his life with his stepfather, Vincent Chen, and never met his biological father until he was nineteen, in Mississauga. Lee-Chin's father left for England after his mother got pregnant. Michael Lee-Chin was born in Jamaica in 1951 and immigrated to Canada in the 1970s where he studied Civil Engineering at McMaster University. Shortly following his graduation, Mr. Lee-Chin entered the financial services industry in 1977. He held progressive positions within financial services C first as a financial advisor for Investors Group and later as a regional manager heading up one of Regal Capital’s most successful branches. In 1987, Mr. Lee-Chin purchased the Advantage Investment Counsel, renamed it AIC, and took the company from $1 million to approximately $10 billion in assets under management. Michael Lee-Chin has distinct and specific beliefs regarding wealth creation, role modelship, his firm’s investment strategy, and the constant need for discipline. AIC’s goal is to create long-term wealth for investors through its family of mutual funds and other managed investment products. To achieve that objective, Mr. Lee-Chin has looked for role models C those business people who have created wealth. He ascertained how those role models (among them Warren Buffett) achieved their success and then followed suit. Mr. Lee-Chin believes that wealthy people in capitalist societies became wealthy by owning one or two excellent businesses and holding these businesses for generations. For this reason, he applies the business person’s approach to investing. AIC buys a few excellent businesses in long term growth sectors and holds these businesses for the long term in order to help AIC investors prosper by preserving and growing their capital and minimizing taxes. He has summed up this philosophy through the words: Buy. Hold. And Prosper.™ As a result of Mr. Lee-Chin’s investment philosophy, AIC stands today as the largest privately held mutual fund company in Canada. The company services almost one million investors with assets under management of approximately $10 billion. AIC’s success has accorded Mr. Lee-Chin a position among Canada’s richest citizens and Forbes ranks him among the 500 wealthiest people in the world. The July 5, 2004 issue of Time magazine named Michael Lee-Chin one of "Canada’s Heroes" C representing one of "the country’s most intriguing and inspiring citizens." AIC’s success has also allowed its long-term investors to prosper through AIC Advantage Fund, the firm’s flagship fund, which has consistently outperformed the S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index over the past 10 and 15 years. Lee-Chin is married to Vera Lee-Chin, a Canadian of Ukrainian descent, to whom he remains legally married, despite separating from her in 1990. Vera is the mother of his three sons, Michael Jr., Paul, and Adrian. He is currently living with Sonya Hamilton, Lee-Chin's girlfriend and a former AIC employee, who is of black, white and Native American descent. With Hamilton, Lee-Chin is also the father of their fraternal-twin daughters, now seven months old. |
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