Nicky Chen
Founding Partner
Biography to be provided.
About the Firm
A private investment manager, built for institutional stewardship.
CCY Capital was established to manage capital with the discipline, governance, and long-horizon perspective that sophisticated investors expect. Our purpose is straightforward: to protect and thoughtfully compound our partners’ capital over time.
Background
Founded on experience.
The firm was founded by a team of investment professionals with backgrounds across global asset management, capital markets, and private investment. That collective experience — earned across multiple market environments — shapes our conviction that consistent, risk-aware execution is the foundation of durable performance.
We operate as a focused partnership. We deliberately keep the firm compact so that senior professionals remain accountable for research, portfolio decisions, and investor communication.
Founding partners
The team behind CCY Capital.
CCY Capital was founded by three partners who share a common investment philosophy and a commitment to institutional standards of governance, research, and investor stewardship.
Alvin Ye
Founding Partner
Biography to be provided.
Mike Cai
Founding Partner
Biography to be provided.
Investment philosophy
Considered, patient, and repeatable.
We invest with humility about what markets can be forecast and with conviction about the value of process. Positions are underwritten to a clear investment thesis, sized according to conviction and risk, and monitored against explicit exit criteria.
Discipline
We adhere to a defined process and refuse to compromise it in response to short-term market pressure. Discipline is what allows a strategy to be evaluated fairly, and it is what protects investors from avoidable error.
Risk management
Risk is considered first, not last. We seek to understand the range of outcomes for each position, we limit correlated exposures, and we prioritise the avoidance of permanent capital impairment.
Transparency
We communicate candidly about what we own, why we own it, and how we are thinking about the environment. We prefer clarity over marketing narrative.
Professionalism
We operate to institutional standards of governance, compliance, and reporting. Our processes are designed to be auditable, our decisions defensible, and our conduct consistent with the expectations of sophisticated allocators.
Long-term approach
Compounding is a discipline, not a slogan.
Our investment horizon is measured in years, not quarters. We believe that patient capital, deployed thoughtfully and monitored rigorously, is best positioned to benefit from the compounding of high-quality opportunities. We resist the pressure to trade for its own sake and we structure our operations so that our team can focus on judgement rather than noise.