In a world where change is the only constant, ShareInvestor.com Holdings Pte Ltd the parent company of Singapore’s largest independent platform for retail investors, today announced a name change to AlphaInvest Holdings Pte Ltd to mark its 25th anniversary.
More than just a name change, the new name, logo, and tagline is a strategic rebranding reflecting the Group’s ongoing evolution into a multi-asset class platform serving the region’s investing community.
"Our mission is to empower retail investors to make informed investment decisions via our investor education and market data products. Our key challenges now are to serve the next generation of younger investors, and to expand into new asset classes. This goes hand-in-hand with growing our investor relations advisory services to enable corporates to engage meaningfully with investors. Our ultimate vision is to create better investment outcomes for all." stated Mr. Christopher Lee, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of the Group.
Echoing this sentiment, Mr. Lim Dau Hee, Chief Operating Officer and Concurrent Chief Technology Officer, and co-founder, added, "For the last 25 years, we have leveraged on technologies to empower investors to make better choices. We are happy to have enabled investors to build diversified investment portfolios. AlphaInvest must continue to innovate to serve our customers and stay ahead of the game."
The Group has had an eventful 25 years since its founding in 1999. The Group was acquired by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) in 2008. After 10 years of profitable operations as part of SPH, the Group’s founders and management team did a management buyout in 2018 at a S$17 million valuation.
In 2023, the Group announced that ShareInvestor acquired and merged with InvestingNote at a combined valuation of S$30 million. InvestingNote, founded by Mr. Shanison Lin (林新汕), is a social media start-up with a user base of young investors. Mr Lin, an ex-staff of Shareinvestor, is now part of AlphaInvest’s leadership team. The Group aims to further grow its reach of 300,000 retail investors and its client base of 700 public listed companies in the region.
Mr Patrick Daniel, who has chaired the Group since 2008, said: "The Group is fortunate to have a dedicated management team who have not ceased their efforts to grow the business in the face of challenging times.
In addition to Christopher, Dau Hee and Shanison, we have Wayne Koo at Waterbrooks, Janista Taosuwan in SI Thailand, Edward Stanislaus in SI Malaysia, and Ahmad Mustafid in PTSI in Jakarta. Together, they form a strong leadership team and I'm confident that AlphaInvest will succeed in extracting synergies and in seizing new opportunities."
The Group's holding company has been registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regularity Authority (ACRA) as “AlphaInvest Holdings Pte. Ltd.” and the name change took effect on 8 March 2024. See http://www.alphainvestholdings.com/ for the corporate profile. AlphaInvest's subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and its associate in Thailand, will retain the ShareInvestor (“SI") name, as will its trademarked Shareinvestor.com market data portal and other product brands.
Future Directions
Going beyond traditional equities-based products and services, the Group will now expand its products and services portfolio to include other asset classes such as currency, commodities and digital assets including NFTs and cryptocurrencies.
AlphaInvest holds an extensive portfolio of well-established brands in investor education, market data tools and investor relations. While retaining their distinct brand identities the companies collaborate to exploit the inherent synergies among themselves to add value to the Group as a whole.
A cornerstone of AlphaInvest’s vision is the relaunch of ShareInvestor.com its core market data and analysis product. The revamped platform represents a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for the analysis of local and regional equities. The new features include a refreshed UI and several data visualization tools to provide users with a more profound and insightful investment analysis experience.
AlphaInvest’s digital publications Investor-One and Inve$t weekly e-magazine are widely distributed throughout the region. In their visually attractive format and with insightful contents they reach out to over 130,000 investors, from novices to professionals.
The Group’s InvestingNote is Singapore and Malaysia’s largest platform for the social investing community, a virtual water cooler corner for the growing number of Gen Z and Tik-Tok Generation investors who gather on it to share their investing insights, exchange ideas and network.
The Group’s Waterbrooks Consultants provides customised investor relations, public relations, branding, crisis communications, issues management and corporate access advisory services to listed as well as non-listed companies.
AlphaInvest is also the organiser of several prominent events on the investing calendar such as InvestFair, REITs Symposium and SG30 Gems held annually. Capitalising on the opportunities in the region, the Group has also expanded its footprint to serve the growing investing community in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
With a pipeline of new products in the planning and development stage AlphaInvest will continue to engage, enlighten, and empower a new generation of tech-savvy investors in the increasingly complex and ever-evolving dynamics of the financial markets.