Vista Global Funds

StarSeed Growth Value Fund

A long-term, high-conviction strategy combining U.S. secular growth equities with Korean value opportunities.

Investment Philosophy

Compounding through complementary sources of alpha

StarSeed Growth Value Fund is a Singapore-based, long-term oriented investment fund pursuing superior compounding through a concentrated barbell strategy across U.S. growth equities and Korean value opportunities. The Fund focuses on a limited number of high-conviction investments where structural growth, valuation asymmetry or identifiable catalysts can create exceptional long-term returns.

Approximately half of the strategy is invested in U.S. Secular Winners — innovative, market-leading companies with large addressable markets, durable competitive advantages and the ability to compound intrinsic value over many years. The Fund emphasises structural growth themes such as technology, artificial intelligence, healthcare, consumer and financial services, and is willing to tolerate short-term volatility where long-term fundamentals remain intact.

The other half focuses on deeply undervalued Korean companies where improvements in corporate governance, capital allocation and shareholder returns can unlock substantial hidden value. Governance is a core part of the Fund’s fundamental analysis. Where appropriate, the Fund engages constructively with companies and may pursue shareholder activism to promote better capital allocation, stronger shareholder returns and governance reform.

Both strategies are built on the same principle: invest with high conviction when the gap between intrinsic value and market expectations is unusually large. In the United States, that gap often reflects underestimated long-term growth; in Korea, it can arise from undervaluation and governance inefficiencies. By combining these complementary sources of alpha, StarSeed seeks asymmetric returns and superior long-term compounding.

Since its inception in January 2022, the Fund has decisively outperformed the broader market.

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Concentrated conviction

A focused portfolio of investments selected for their potential to deliver exceptional long-term outcomes.

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U.S. secular winners

Market-leading businesses with durable advantages, large addressable markets and long runways for intrinsic-value compounding.

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Korean value creation

Undervalued companies where governance, capital allocation and shareholder-return improvements may unlock hidden value.

Investment Team

Research-led investing with governance insight

The team brings together legal, governance, technology, consulting and institutional equity-research experience.

Portfolio Manager

Kevin KyuShik Kim

Kevin KyuShik Kim is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of StarSeed Growth Value Fund, established in January 2022. A graduate of Seoul National University College of Law, he began his career as a Korean attorney specialising in hedge fund advisory, corporate governance and banking before transitioning to investment management in 2016. He subsequently worked at several asset managers, including Brain Asset Management and Soorim Asset Management.

Kevin is the author of Smoke Screen (2024), a founder and former second Chairman of the Korea Corporate Governance Forum, and currently serves on its Board. He has also served as an independent director of several Korean listed companies, including Park Systems, SM Entertainment and Oscotec. His investment approach draws on his combined expertise in law, governance and fundamental investing.

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Senior Analyst

Kayoung Lee

Kayoung Lee is a Senior Analyst at StarSeed Growth Value Fund, focusing on fundamental equity research across U.S. and Korean markets. She graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Economics and began her career at McKinsey & Company, followed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

She later spent five years as an equity research analyst at Samsung Securities, where she developed deep expertise in company and industry analysis and was recognised as a Best Analyst in 2024. Her experience across consulting, technology and institutional research brings a rigorous, cross-disciplinary perspective to StarSeed’s investment process.

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