Advent-Oriental Asset Management donate 270,000 Euros to Special Olympics Fund

Sept. 30, 2009 - PRLog -- London: 26 Apr 08

At a meeting of the Special Olympics committee in London today, Dr Owen Post the Director of Research of Advent-Oriental Asset Management the Shanghai based Asset Management & Private Equity Firm, handed over a cheque for 270,000 euros much to the delight of the committee.

Dr Post explained, “I received a letter from a family friend late last year who had served in the Royal Engineers with my late father. He wrote to tell me that his grandson Cpl Tony Dunne RE had lost his left leg clearing IEDs in Afghanistan. I knew Tony to be one of the British Army's most promising young athletes, indeed he was a member of Eastliegh AAC whose members include olympians Chris Akabussi ex R.Sigs and Roger Black. Tonys ambition, like Chris and Roger was to represent Great Britain at the Olympics and when I lobbied our board they saw fit, like me to help Tony and many others like him fulfill their ambition, I wish him the very best of luck.”

About Advent-Oriental Asset Management

Advent – Oriental was founded in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) in 1889 by Maj Gen Sir John Leopold Advent MC KCB. Burma was at that time an annex of India under the rule and administration of the British “Raj”.
 A highly decorated career soldier and nearing the end of his military service, Sir John had an Indian bride and substantial holdings in the Bengal region. Upon retirement, his purpose and intent was to form a company that would assist and advise retiring officers and men in investing their gratuities, pensions and assets wisely and prudently, in order that they may live out their retirement in comfort and security and so, Advent-Oriental Asset Management was born.
 Upon the death of Sir John in 1899, the company decided to open its doors to servicemen and civilians alike whilst continuing to honor Sir John’s basic tenet of “Wisdom and Prudence” and in 1962 moved operations to Singapore because of the political situation that was developing in Burma.
 Two further moves were to follow; Hong Kong Island in 1966 and finally, Shanghai in 2004 where our center of operations is now located.
The focus since 1991 has been on the now fashionable “green” technology sector in sourcing, researching and identifying opportunities in companies that are either developing, producing or manufacturing alternative energy solutions, ecologically friendly waste management & disposal systems– and their ancillaries.

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Advent – Oriental was founded in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) in 1889. Now based in Shanghai,and focussing on the“green” technology sector