Published by Hubbis – Dec 13th 2018
Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed Jason Zhu Guoqing as Managing Director and Director of Portfolio Management – China and Yu-Jen Shih as Portfolio Manager and Deputy Director of Research, with a focus on portfolio management in Asia.
Mr. Zhu will be based in Franklin Templeton’s Shanghai office, and Mr. Shih will be based in Singapore. Both will report to Sukumar Rajah, Senior Managing Director and Director of Portfolio Management for Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity (FTEME,) with Mr. Shih also working closely with Tek Khoan Ong, Director of Research for FTEME.
A Chinese national and native Mandarin speaker with over 20 years of Chinese equity investment experience, Mr. Zhu will assume research and portfolio management responsibilities for China A-shares. Mr. Zhu joins from Fullerton Fund Management where he was Director of Investment and Head of China Equity, leading its equity team in Shanghai. He oversaw the QFII and RQFII mandates and won the Asia Asset Management’s 2016 Best of the Best Awards for China A-Share Equity (10 years) during his tenure. Previously, he spent a decade at Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Management where he last served as the Head of Equity Investment. Mr. Zhu graduated from Fudan University with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and a Master of Economics in International Business Management. He is also a CFA© charterholder.
Mr. Shih brings over two decades of global and Asia investment experience and will be a Portfolio Manager with a focus on Asia. Additionally, as Deputy Director of Research, he will support the consistency and robustness of FTEME’s research process and the ongoing development of timely, high quality investment ideas by its analyst team. He joins from Fullerton Fund Management in Singapore where he was responsible for various equity funds and was the lead manager of several Asia-focused equity funds. Previously, he was an equity portfolio manager at Henderson Global Investors and at Baring Asset Management, based in London. Mr. Shih has a Master of Science in Finance and a Master of Engineering from Imperial College. He is also a CFA©charterholder and a native Mandarin speaker.
