STARTING A COMPANY

Then he learned about QFII, the
Qualified Foreign Institutional
Investor program, a new Chinese ini-
tiative that allows a limited number of
non-Chinese nationals to invest in
companies traded in Chinese rather
than Western currency.
Boesky, Tang and Lewis Wan, who'd
been Tang's boss at Pricewaterhouse-
Coopers, jumped at the opportunity.
Boesky settled in Hong Kong for
access to legal and technical support
he needed for his company, but soon
discovered the city includes a Jewish
community numbering about 600, with
a Jewish center and two synagogues.
When meeting with government
officials or touring businesses through-
out China, Boesky usually finds a way
to bring up his Jewish heritage.
"When I tell them that I am you tai
ren (Jewish) it clicks for them," he says.
"They've always heard about these
Jews throughout China during World
War II and before, and their main
impression is that we are smart — not in
a good way, not in a bad way. Just smart.
"So they look at this young man

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who, in most cases, they like, they
shake my hand and say Hen c/urn ming
(very smart). This exact same thing
happened to me four times."
If it hadn't been for family and
friends — mostly Jewish — back in
Metro Detroit, the Marco Polo Fund
never would have gotten off the ground,
Boesky says.
"We don't recommend any funds
we don't personally invest in our-
selves," says friend Norm Pappas of
Bloomfield Hills, principal of the
Farmington Hills investment firm
Pappas Financial.
Boesky may be young, Pappas says,
but "in terms of the investment world
and the hedge fund world, it's a young
endeavor.
"Aaron has spent the past few years
doing exhaustive research in China.
He's put together a very good team.
They come to this from an auditor's
perspective."
This opportunity is not for every-
body, Pappas says. "But, for the right
people, it's a very unique opportunity,
like being able to invest in the United
States in the early 1900s."

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Clarification

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