{"id":62267,"date":"2017-04-12T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/mobilite\/chou-chong-appointed-to-natixis-asset-management-asia\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T22:48:00","slug":"chou-chong-appointed-to-natixis-asset-management-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/asset-management\/mobilite\/chou-chong-appointed-to-natixis-asset-management-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chou Chong appointed to Natixis Asset Management Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chou Chong will be based in Singapore and is to be in charge of managing Asian equity funds, with assets under<br \/>\nmanagement of \u20ac555m[[At December 31, 2016 ]]. The investment approach targets a concentrated stock selection, based on proprietary<br \/>\nvaluations and focusing on growth stocks and small and mid caps. Chou will report to St\u00e9phane Mauppin-Higashino,<br \/>\nHead of Natixis Asset Management Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Chou Chong spent most of his career at Aberdeen Asset Management. He started off in Singapore in 1994 as an<br \/>\nanalyst and fund manager on Asian equities and was then appointed Head of Australian equities in Sydney in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently became Head of Pan-European Equities and Head of Developed Markets ex-Asia in 2002, in<br \/>\nLondon. In 2008, he returned to Singapore as Investment Director where he co-managed a team of 40 staff.<\/p>\n<p>Chou holds a Master of Science in Accounting &#038; Finance and a Master of Science in Information Systems from the<br \/>\nLondon School of Economics (1991-1993). He also holds a CFA\u00ae certification (Chartered Financial Analyst).<\/p>\n<p>The Natixis Asset Management Asia platform has 16 staff and aims to contribute to the development of Natixis<br \/>\nAsset Management\u2019s global expertise as a result of its research and investment management capabilities on Asian<br \/>\nassets, particularly equity and credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natixis Asset Management Asia, Natixis Asset Management\u2019s Singapore-based platform, announces the<br \/>\nappointment of Chou Chong as Head of Asian Equities Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":62265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1479],"tags":[1655,1651,1437,2044,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}