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Professional Piloting: Cross-border Integration of Culture and Finance
Vajra Fund brings together top global experts in ancient art and a senior financial management team to safeguard and enhance the value of rare cultural assets for high-net-worth investors through rigorous due diligence and academic depth. We are not only managers of funds, but also restorers of historical value.
Separation of Governance Roles
Vajra Fund strictly adheres to its separation of powers (SoD) principle, ensuring that investment decisions, asset custody, and valuation reviews are carried out independently by different functional departments, thus eliminating conflicts of interest.
Compliance review standards
All asset acquisitions must undergo double verification by an expert committee and strict AML (anti-money laundering) and source legality reviews to ensure that every investment target is transferred in an orderly manner.
Information disclosure and transparency
We regularly provide qualified investors with audited financial reports and net asset value (NAV) updates, using internationally recognized institutional valuation models to ensure that investors' rights are protected to the highest standards.
Founder and Managing Director: Michael Huang
Antiquities Collector / Cultural Asset Investor / Financial Investment Expert
Mr. Michael Huang is a senior collector of ancient art, cultural asset investor, and financial investment professional, and currently serves as a director of Vajra Fund. The fund focuses on investing in Buddhist art, Himalayan and Asian Buddhist sculptures and ritual implements, Thangka paintings, ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and other alternative physical assets with historical, cultural, and academic value.
Mr. Huang has over thirty years of experience in collecting, researching, and investing in ancient art, with a long-term focus on important cultural assets such as ancient Buddhist statues, ritual implements, Thangkas, and ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting. For many years, he has continuously conducted in-depth research on the history of Asian Buddhist art, the transmission system of cultural relics, and the development trends of the collecting market, establishing a significant private collection system covering Buddhist art and traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. With his profound academic background, rich market experience, and extensive international collecting network, Mr. Huang possesses unique and forward-looking insights into the historical, cultural, academic, and investment value of ancient art.
Excellent financial governance background
Financial Investment Qualifications
Mr. Huang also has extensive experience in the financial and securities investment industry, with long-term involvement in asset management, corporate investment and cross-border financial business. He also served as a director of Trust Bank, where he was involved in corporate governance, strategic planning, risk management and capital operation. He has more than 30 years of experience in financial institution operation, investment management and corporate governance.
Cultural asset investment philosophy
Mr. Huang has been committed to promoting the institutionalization and internationalization of cultural asset investment, and advocates enhancing the historical status and market value of ancient artworks through professional research, academic support, public exhibitions, institutional loans, and cultural dissemination. His investment philosophy emphasizes long-term holding, value discovery, and cultural inheritance. He believes that cultural assets with true historical significance and academic value are not only precious carriers of human civilization, but also important alternative assets that can transcend economic cycles and be passed down through generations.
Founding Initiation and Strategic Guidance of Vajra Fund
As one of the founding key figures and directors of Vajra Fund, Mr. Huang's profound expertise in cultural assets, his ability to appreciate art, and his extensive experience in financial markets provide crucial guidance for the fund's investment strategy formulation, asset screening, valuation, and long-term development direction. His professional background aligns perfectly with the fund's investment focus on Buddhist art, Himalayan and Asian Buddhist sculptures and ritual implements, ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting, and other rare cultural assets, laying a solid foundation for the fund to establish an institutional-level alternative asset platform that combines cultural mission, academic value, and investment returns.
Investment Committee Senior Expert Advisor: Yi Suhao
National-level expert in cultural relics appraisal / Founder of the art auction industry / Owner of Oujiang Caotang
Mr. Yi Suhao has been deeply involved in the cultural heritage system and art market for over fifty years, possessing 21 years of experience within the National Museum of China (formerly the National Museum of Chinese History) and 30 years of hands-on auction experience. He previously served as the Secretary-General of the National Museum of China's Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee and a Senior Advisor to Poly Group, and was a key figure in the repatriation of national treasures lost overseas for hundreds of millions of yuan, such as the Yuanmingyuan animal heads and Mi Fu's "Yanshan Inscription".
In the investment committee, Mr. Yi, with his dual-track risk control perspective of "national-level collection standards + market experience in identifying counterfeits," provides top-notch asset valuation and authenticity verification for the platform's cultural and artistic investments.
Core experience and industry contributions
The orthodox heir to the National Museum of China's museological and cultural legacy
He studied under Shi Shuqing, a leading figure in cultural heritage, and served as the director of the collection office of the Conservation Department of the National Museum of China and the secretary-general of the museum's cultural relics appraisal committee. He participated in the entire process of formulating national cultural relics laws and regulations, laying the foundation for national-level appraisal standards.
Pioneers in the auction industry
Since 1996, he has served as the general manager of several leading auction houses, including China World Trade Center Auction House and Macau Art Collection. For thirty years, he has been at the forefront of the art market, reshaping the pricing and authentication system for Chinese paintings and calligraphy auctions in China.
Key contributors to the repatriation of national treasures
He personally spearheaded the purchase of Mi Fu's "Yanshan Ming" (now in the Palace Museum), a national treasure of Song Dynasty calligraphy, from Japan; and represented Poly Group in overseas auctions, successfully facilitating the return of the three animal heads—the ox head, monkey head, and tiger head—from the Old Summer Palace to the motherland.
Investment Committee's Core Risk Control Values
Cross-category asset penetration capability
The scope of expertise is extremely broad, encompassing all categories of calligraphy and painting from various dynasties (ancient/modern/Shanghai School), bronzes, ancient ceramics, ancient jade, and scholar's objects, including inkstones. It possesses the ability to cross-category dating and comprehensive evaluation.
Market-grade high-quality counterfeit identification skills
They possess both the expertise to master the highest-level standards and benchmarks of museums and a deep understanding of cutting-edge counterfeiting techniques such as chemical aging and technological replication. This allows them to accurately expose market bubbles of counterfeits and prevent asset risks.
A rigorous system of origin and development research
Our unique five-step verification method, which combines "charm, material, craftsmanship, signature, and record," uses "orderly provenance" as a key weight in asset valuation, ensuring that every recommended asset is indisputable both academically and legally.
Academic Achievements and Core Publications
Mr. Yi Suhao adheres to the principle of "using material evidence to verify history and writings to pass it down through generations," and has presided over and participated in the compilation of many authoritative classics that fill gaps in the industry. His academic achievements are recognized as standard reference books for authentication in the industry.
- *Calligraphy from Various Dynasties in the Collection of the National Museum of Chinese History (Ming Dynasty Volume)* (Chief Editor)
- Selected Qing Dynasty Calligraphy Collection from Xiao Mang Cang Cang Zhai (Associate Editor)
- A Record of Masterpieces of Ancient Chinese Painting and Calligraphy (Vols. 1-8, Chief Editor)
- Research on the Yanshan Inscription (Chief Editor)
- *The Annals of Yantian* (two volumes, independently authored)
- A Collection of Masterpieces by Famous Writers of the Maritime Region (Three Volumes, Independently Authored)
- Twenty Years of Chinese Cultural Relics and Art Auctions (Core Editorial Board)
- *Poly Auction Collection: Selected Masterpieces from the Poly Art Museum* (Editorial Board Member)
Mr. Yi's message: The core of art investment lies in "distinguishing authenticity" and "understanding value." We use a dual set of rigorous standards that transcend both the system and the market to help investors accurately capture timeless treasures that combine academic excellence with financial value.