Andrew Chan

IFB is an active investor. They use a GARP investment approach. The firm manages portfolios invested in equity, fixed-income, real estate and money-market instruments, through vehicles such as pure equity and fixed-income funds but also asset allocation funds and Shariah/Islamic funds. The firm uses fundamental analysis as the basis of their investment strategy. They combine top-down macroeconomic asset allocation and bottom-up fundamental stockpicking. They invest globally across strategies, sectors, regions and market caps with a geographic focus on Malaysian and Asian securities.

KIB is an active, fundamental research based manager which employs a bottom-up stock picking approach to invest across asset classes. The firm specializes in the Asia-Pacific region, with core competency in Asian equities and absolute return strategies. They focus on capital preservation and define risk as the probability of not being able to achieve a return above the prevailing cash or target return. KIB constructs portfolios following an absolute return approach where the emphasis for performance comparison is less on a market-related benchmark and more on a relatively stable target such as cash returns or inflation rate, believing that in the long run, this approach will yield returns superior to the underlying market benchmark and with lower volatility.