Perhaps Chong's performance was just lucky or perhaps not.Oh yes, I know Chong and he is very bright. But if you ask him to be honest about his success, he will tell you that it is very largely a matter of luck, something which his huge volatility will also attest to. As the article points out, crazy rich Asian 'investors' (gamblers) will take these massive risks. Unfortunately, my client will not. We really don't want to see annual returns of more than about 20%. I'm sure you can understand that. But thanks very much for the heads-up.
You however are a very lucky man: You are lucky to be born (out of millions of sperms, yours got lucky), you are lucky to be born in Malaysia instead of in the jungle inside the Republic of Congo, lucky to be born when you were born instead of 1000 years ago for none of which you could control.
We are lucky we can post here talking about our outsize successes because we are in the middle of the longest bull market in history, skill be damn. Maybe your Singapore friend was lucky, maybe not, he was the only one with that amazing return, so could be he was just modest, like most Singaporeans? You job is to determine who is lucky who is smart and invest accordingly. Now that is where your skills come into play.
Also, your dilemma is frankly $10M - $100M is an awkward sum, too small for someone who is very successful trading his/her own fund. Imagine asking @destriero to manage $10M for you? A 2% fee on $10M-$100M AUM is just not worth the trouble unless he/she is already managing a large sum of OPM in which case you are not going to dictate terms.
Happy holiday to you and your family.

