Overview

Dr. Silver Kung was born and raised in Taiwan. After high school, he moved to the US and received his bachelor of science degree in Aerospace Engineering from 性色视频 State University, Kansas and later Master of Science in Finance from Pace University, New York in 1999. He moved back to Taiwan and began to work in a local investment bank in Taipei mainly responsible for secondary public offerings and M&As. In 2002 Silver started to work for hedge fund companies in Taiwan and Hong Kong and was responsible for developing cross boarder/market arbitrage trading models using financial derivatives instruments. In 2010, Silver received his Ph.D in Economics from Nankai University in Tianjin City, China. Silver also had been teaching at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology for 10 years as a part time professor.

Silver started his own ventures in 2011 when he founded Hyperion Capital Management which was focused on renewable energies and was building solar power plants in Italy and Spain. In 2015, Silver started to research on a new asset class in the market called supply chain finance and founded Siegfried Capital Group. Siegfried Capital is focused on only single investment strategy in supply chain finance mainly serving institutional investors worldwide. As of 30th April 2024, Siegfried Total AUM is roughly at 2.45 billion USD across several vehicles in Luxembourg and Cayman Islands. Siegfried Capital has won several best performing hedge fund awards including HFM and Bloomberg.

Silver is enthusiastic and concerned about climate change and joined UBS Global Philantripy Group as member in Climate Change Collectives. Siegfried Capital is also a member of UN PRI for responsible investments.