Mr. Au: I'll start with a bit about myself and then I'll speak about R.W. Wentworth. I am the author of a book called A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing. That's my claim to fame for the purpose of this interview. I also write for thestreet.com, The Prudent Bear, and a number of other investment Websites. Wentworth, the name of my company, is named after Lord Thomas Wentworth, otherwise known as the Earl of Strafford, who was the Ben Graham of his time, which was the 1640s. R.W. Wentworth is a financial advisory service, based in New York City. Recently, we started working with a company called Viking Investments to set up a fund called the Viking China Fund. Viking Investments is headed by a Swedish CEO named Tom Simeo, with Swedish backing, but its current primary business is investment banking for small cap Chinese companies. Specifically, they are buying and then listing small cap Chinese companies, and Wentworth will be the portfolio management arm of this joint venture.
TWST: That's an interesting development.
Mr. Au: Yes. It happened rather recently, and was a chance meeting. I went to
Sweden, came back to the States, learned some Swedish, and joined a Swedish
church, where I met a Swedish CEO of a Swedish company.
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