Andrew C. Cormie

Eastspring Singapore is a research-driven, value-oriented manager which focuses primarily on Asia's equity and bond markets. The firm’s Equities team follows a valuation-based approach, and their Fixed Income team utilizes a disciplined, medium-term approach. Eastspring Singapore applies a top-down investment management approach in deriving its credit sector, duration and currency allocation strategy and decisions. This is necessarily combined with a thorough bottom-up credit selection process, based on research and analysis, to determine good value credit investments and avoid potential corporate default events. They conduct in-house research but also outsource some research from third-party analysts.

JPAM-UK is an active, long-term manager which seeks to generate positive excess return through both a bottom-up approach emphasizing security selection and a top-down approach focusing on macro investment themes and trends to aid in determining sector weightings, currency, and yield curve weighting where appropriate. Each team has a distinct approach for analyzing their sector; utilizing a combination of fundamental, quantitative and technical inputs to identify buy and sell targets.