Diversus Opens Hong Kong Office, Hires Vincent Pun as Principal

Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., September 18, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Diversus Investment Advisers Pty Limited (“Diversus” or the “Firm”), an independent fund placement and advisory firm, today announced that Mr. Vincent Pun has joined the Firm as a principal.

Mr. Pun will be responsible for Diversus’ newly opened office in Hong Kong and will focus on fund origination, screening, due diligence as well as institutional investor and manager research across private equity, venture capital and hedge fund sectors in the Asia Pacific region, with coverage on the Gulf, Europe and North America.

Commenting on the appointment, Diversus founder & director Nicholas Smith said: “I am very pleased and excited to have Vincent joining Diversus. He brings a wealth of regional experience and knowledge having worked closely with hundreds of private equity firms, institutional investors and financial advisors globally for almost a decade. Combining the already very strong institutional network of Diversus in Australia & New Zealand and the Gulf
region, Vincent’s Asia market insight is certainly a perfect match with Diversus Investment Advisers’ business model."

Vincent Pun added: “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to build Diversus’ franchise across the Asia region. The opening of the Hong Kong office has well-positioned the Firm to capture the fast-growing alternative asset market right here. We believe that our strategy is niche. Given the understanding of different investment objectives of our investor groups and our capability of accessing top alternative investment managers, Diversus is able to distribute
suitable fund products to institutional investors and at the same time introducing appropriate investors to fund managers.”

About Diversus Investment Advisers
With offices in Sydney and Hong Kong, Diversus Investment Advisers is an independent fund placement and advisory firm and focused on advising investment managers which have outperforming and repeatable strategies raise institutional capital from investors in Australia & New Zealand, Asia and the Gulf region. Our team also is capable of covering the institutional investor market in Europe and North America. Over the past fifteen years, Diversus founder and senior professionals have successfully been serving and maintaining long-standing relationships with global investment managers and institutional investors.

Diversus holds an Australian Financial Services Licence and is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. For further information about Diversus, please visit www.diversusinvestment.com.

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Vincent Pun
Mr. Pun received his BBA (Hons) in finance and minor in accountancy from Hong Kong. Prior to joining Diversus Investment Advisers, he had almost nine years of professional experience in the alternative investment sector with primary focuses on private equity, venture capital, real estate and infrastructure. He was most recently the senior research manager of the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ Group), where he headed the AVCJ Research division to conduct private equity and mergers & acquisitions research in Asia as well as advising global general partners, limited partners and institutional investors in the areas of fund-raising, market entry, sector analysis and manager selection. Vincent is regarded as one of the earliest and most experienced Asian private equity researchers and is featured in numerous private equity conferences, press releases, industry reports and publications.

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