General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> December 8, 2008
Steven R. Champion is the CEO, President and Portfolio Manager for the Taiwan
Greater China Fund, having assumed these positions in February 2004 upon
completion of the Fund's restructuring and conversion to internal management.
His experience encompasses over 16 years as a resident in Greater China, 14 of
which were spent in Taiwan. His time in Taiwan included six years, from 1987 to
1992, as President and CEO of International Investment Trust Company, the
country's first mutual fund management company. He also directly managed The
R.O.C. Taiwan Fund, which was first established in 1983 and is the predecessor
to the Taiwan Greater China Fund. Prior to his time at International Investment
Trust Company, he managed the Taiwan operations of Continental Illinois National
Bank from 1980 to 1987 and was Assistant Manager in Taipei from 1976 to 1978.
From 1996 to 2001, he was Chief Investment Officer of Aetna International in
Hartford, Connecticut, where he managed the company's worldwide portfolios
outside the United States, including a very substantial portfolio in Taiwan and
those of the company's joint ventures in China and Hong Kong. Among his
directorships have been the US-Taiwan Business Council, the China Dynamic Growth
Fund in Beijing and Kwang Hua Investment Trust Company in Taipei. He is the
author of The Great Taiwan Bubble (Pacific View Press, 1998) and "Un-cooking the
Books in Taiwan," published in the op-ed pages of The Asian Wall Street Journal
in mid-1985. He has a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA with
distinction from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, and is a
Certified Public Accountant. Profile
Mr. Champion: The Taiwan Greater China Fund is a closed-end mutual fund listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, and it
