BlackRock Hires Non-Profit, Venture Philanthropy Expert To Spearhead New Impact Investing Platform

Published by WealthBriefingAsia – 12th February 2015

BlackRock is unifying its social and environmental investment offerings by rolling out a new dedicated platform for this field.

Deborah Winshel has joined BlackRock as a managing director and global head of impact investing, charged with unifying the firm’s approach to impact investing through the launch of BlackRock Impact – a global platform that caters to investors with social or

Published by VCCircle – 11th February 2015

Religare Private Wealth, the advisory led wealth management platform of diversified financial services firm Religare Enterprises Limited (REL), has appointed Gaurav Arora as chief investment officer, according to a press release.

He will be based in Mumbai and will report to Shachindra Nath, the current group CFO of Religare Enterprises.

Published by WealthBriefingAsia – 9th February 2015

Manulife is putting its wealth and asset management arms in Asia under the same roof, the firm said, as it named the man to head up the combined groups.

Canada-headquartered Manulife has put its Asian wealth and asset management divisions under one roof by appointing senior company executive Michael Dommermuth to head the group.

Published by WealthBriefingAsia – 9th February 2015

The US financial services giant has increased the Asia presence of its real estate investment business.

Pramerica Real Estate Investors, part of US-listed Prudential Financial, has reorganised its Asia-Pacific leadership structure to pursue growth and boost its Japanese capabilities.

Published by AsianInvestor – 6th February 2015

US fund house Invesco has moved to hire industry veteran Terry Pan from rival JP Morgan Asset Management as CEO for Greater China, Singapore and Korea, AsianInvestor can reveal.

Pan officially started at Invesco on February 2, according to online records lodged with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission.

Published by Bloomberg – 6th February 2015

Pacific Investment Management Co. managing directors Brian Baker and Suhail Dada are retiring and a third has left as the investment firm recovers from the most tumultuous year in its history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Baker, chief executive officer and director of Pimco Asia and the head of Asia ex-Japan, will retire in May, and Dada, head of the U.S. institutional business development and consultant relations group, will retire in April, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the moves aren’t public. Ana Dhoraisingam, head of business development at Pimco Asia who leads the Singapore office, left for other opportunities, the person said.

Published by InvestmentWeek  – 3rd February 2015

Fidelity’s South East Asia fund manager Allan Liu is to retire later this year after 27 years of running active funds.

The manager previously stepped back from running the group’s onshore £1.8bn South East Asia fund in 2013, handing it to Teera Chanpongsang.

Liu is now to relinquish lead fund management responsibilities on the group’s offshore South East Asia fund on 1 March, ahead of his retirement in June.

Published by AsianInvestor – 3rd February 2015

The Japanese fund house has hired from BNY Mellon, Citi and Invesco to fill newly created roles, as  it seeks to build out its international business.

Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management has named a quartet of senior executives to newly created posts in its institutional sales and marketing team across Japan, the UK and the US.