The Risk and Performance Committee (RPC) develops and advocates best practices in the areas of measurement, analysis, management and reporting of investment risk and performance. The RPC is tasked with driving initiatives aimed at deepening the industry’s understanding of crucial issues investors face in the evaluation of investment risk and performance.
Mr Persaud is Head of Investment Strategy and Solutions for the AIA Group where he is responsible for Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation, Derivative Strategies, Private Market Strategy, New Investment Product Development, Portfolio Construction Oversight and Quantitative Investments.
Prior to joining AIA, Trevor worked with a number of large insurers, asset managers and other asset owners in the region as an independent consultant. He left Standard Chartered Bank at the end of 2017, where he was responsible for their Commercial and Institutional Banking business (Financial Markets, Transaction Banking and Corporate Finance) for Insurers across Asia.
Mr Persaud is a trusted investment advisor to many of the leading Insurers and Asset Owners in the region and has a distinguished 28 year career spanning Banking, Asset Management, Insurance and Consulting globally with the last 14 years in Asia.
Prior to Standard Chartered, Mr Persaud held senior investment roles at Stradegi (a specialist investment consultancy), Russell Investments (leading their business in ASEAN, HK and Taiwan, focused on multi asset outcome oriented investments, strategic and tactical asset allocation and investment governance advisory for asset owners and in particular insurance companies), Prudential, Insight and Schroders (where he had been responsible for their Investment Risk and Performance Globally) and MSCI.
Mr Persaud is a Chartered Management Accountant, has been conferred the Distinguished Fellow designation by the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore and is a past Chair of the Global Investment Performance Standards Executive committee. He is also an advisor to the Investment Management Association of Singapore and Chair of their Risk and Performance committee and is actively involved in industry efforts to promote and further innovation, best practice and transparency in Investment management.
Pierre Soens, is the head of the risk and quantitative analysis department for BlackRock's Singapore office, managing Counterparty risk, Enterprise risk and serves as investment risk consultant for portfolio Managers. In the latter capacity the focus lies on active fixed income products, passive investment strategies and private credit. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2015, Mr. Soens worked for Fitch Ratings as Head of the Dutch RMBS team where he developed rating criteria and worked on a wide variety of asset classes. Prior to that, he started his career at Huntsman Polyurethanes Belgium with separate stints as a corporate credit analyst and a securitization manager.
Mr. Soens holds a MSc degree, with Honors, in Finance from the Solvay Business School.
Cedric Torres joined Eastspring Investments as a Director in 2023. Having joined the Risk Department of Income Insurance in July 2018, he was previously the Head, Investment Operational Risk and Investment Compliance, Risk Management, assisting the CRO to oversee risks related to the investment activities from an Asset Owner/2nd Line of Defence perspective. Prior to that, he was the Head of Investment Risk and Performance Analytics function.
Before joining Income Insurance, Mr Torres was Risk Manager & Compliance Officer for a family office in Singapore, and worked in various risk and performance related roles from 2007 to 2015 including some years at Eastspring Investments and having started his career at Amundi in Paris, with Lyxor AM and SocGen AM.
Mr Torres holds a MSc degree in Finance/Business Administration from INSEEC Grande Ecole. He is FRM Certified and CIPM Holder.
Gwee Siew Ping is the Chief Risk Officer, Asia Pacific, at Fidelity International. She was appointed from August 2022 and is responsible for the oversight and challenge of the risk management system and its implementation within Fidelity’s businesses in the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to Fidelity, Siew Ping was the Chief Risk Officer of Eastspring Investments from October 2013 and was responsible for Risk, Compliance, Legal and Governance matters across all the markets in which Eastspring Investments operate.
She was also previously Regional Head of Compliance and Risk, Asia Pacific, at Schroders, and was a member of the Board of Directors of a number of the Schroder entities incorporated in Singapore, including the asset management and the merchant bank entities. She joined Schroders in 1997 and held several senior compliance roles during her tenure with the firm.
Before joining Schroders, she was an Internal Auditor at Swiss Bank Corporation and JP Morgan respectively, leading audits in the Global Markets and Emerging Markets Treasury across Asia Pacific.
In 2009, Siew Ping was awarded the Distinguished Financial Industry Certified Professional certification in Compliance - Fund Management by the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), now renamed IBF Distinguished Fellow.
Siew Ping holds a Master of Business Administration awarded by the University of Manchester (Manchester Business School) and a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the National University of Singapore. She is also professionally qualified as a Chartered Accountant of Singapore by the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
Mr Persaud is Head of Investment Strategy and Solutions for the AIA Group where he is responsible for Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation, Derivative Strategies, Private Market Strategy, New Investment Product Development, Portfolio Construction Oversight and Quantitative Investments.
Prior to joining AIA, Trevor worked with a number of large insurers, asset managers and other asset owners in the region as an independent consultant. He left Standard Chartered Bank at the end of 2017, where he was responsible for their Commercial and Institutional Banking business (Financial Markets, Transaction Banking and Corporate Finance) for Insurers across Asia.
Mr Persaud is a trusted investment advisor to many of the leading Insurers and Asset Owners in the region and has a distinguished 28 year career spanning Banking, Asset Management, Insurance and Consulting globally with the last 14 years in Asia.
Prior to Standard Chartered, Mr Persaud held senior investment roles at Stradegi (a specialist investment consultancy), Russell Investments (leading their business in ASEAN, HK and Taiwan, focused on multi asset outcome oriented investments, strategic and tactical asset allocation and investment governance advisory for asset owners and in particular insurance companies), Prudential, Insight and Schroders (where he had been responsible for their Investment Risk and Performance Globally) and MSCI.
Mr Persaud is a Chartered Management Accountant, has been conferred the Distinguished Fellow designation by the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore and is a past Chair of the Global Investment Performance Standards Executive committee. He is also an advisor to the Investment Management Association of Singapore and Chair of their Risk and Performance committee and is actively involved in industry efforts to promote and further innovation, best practice and transparency in Investment management.
Pierre Soens, is the head of the risk and quantitative analysis department for BlackRock's Singapore office, managing Counterparty risk, Enterprise risk and serves as investment risk consultant for portfolio Managers. In the latter capacity the focus lies on active fixed income products, passive investment strategies and private credit. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2015, Mr. Soens worked for Fitch Ratings as Head of the Dutch RMBS team where he developed rating criteria and worked on a wide variety of asset classes. Prior to that, he started his career at Huntsman Polyurethanes Belgium with separate stints as a corporate credit analyst and a securitization manager.
Mr. Soens holds a MSc degree, with Honors, in Finance from the Solvay Business School.
Cedric Torres joined Eastspring Investments as a Director in 2023. Having joined the Risk Department of Income Insurance in July 2018, he was previously the Head, Investment Operational Risk and Investment Compliance, Risk Management, assisting the CRO to oversee risks related to the investment activities from an Asset Owner/2nd Line of Defence perspective. Prior to that, he was the Head of Investment Risk and Performance Analytics function.
Before joining Income Insurance, Mr Torres was Risk Manager & Compliance Officer for a family office in Singapore, and worked in various risk and performance related roles from 2007 to 2015 including some years at Eastspring Investments and having started his career at Amundi in Paris, with Lyxor AM and SocGen AM.
Mr Torres holds a MSc degree in Finance/Business Administration from INSEEC Grande Ecole. He is FRM Certified and CIPM Holder.
Gwee Siew Ping is the Chief Risk Officer, Asia Pacific, at Fidelity International. She was appointed from August 2022 and is responsible for the oversight and challenge of the risk management system and its implementation within Fidelity’s businesses in the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to Fidelity, Siew Ping was the Chief Risk Officer of Eastspring Investments from October 2013 and was responsible for Risk, Compliance, Legal and Governance matters across all the markets in which Eastspring Investments operate.
She was also previously Regional Head of Compliance and Risk, Asia Pacific, at Schroders, and was a member of the Board of Directors of a number of the Schroder entities incorporated in Singapore, including the asset management and the merchant bank entities. She joined Schroders in 1997 and held several senior compliance roles during her tenure with the firm.
Before joining Schroders, she was an Internal Auditor at Swiss Bank Corporation and JP Morgan respectively, leading audits in the Global Markets and Emerging Markets Treasury across Asia Pacific.
In 2009, Siew Ping was awarded the Distinguished Financial Industry Certified Professional certification in Compliance - Fund Management by the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), now renamed IBF Distinguished Fellow.
Siew Ping holds a Master of Business Administration awarded by the University of Manchester (Manchester Business School) and a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the National University of Singapore. She is also professionally qualified as a Chartered Accountant of Singapore by the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
Madhu Gayer currently works in Singapore, in the asset management industry. He has over 25 years of investment industry experience, previously working in banking and asset management in Hong Kong and Australia, across the investment value chain, from portfolio management and trading, to risk & performance, quantitative analysis, ESG and reporting. He is an active participant and contributor to the industry through a variety of regional and global working groups and committees, for the CFA, the AIMA, and the UN PRI. He has authored and co-authored industry guidance papers, and helped shape various global best practices and standards. He is a FRM and a CIPM certificant, and holds a Master of Commerce from the University of Sydney.
Dominic Lim joined the Investment Office of the National University of Singapore (NUS) in October 2018 and is currently the Chief Operating Officer at the Investment Office.
Prior to joining NUS, Dominic was Managing Director and Director of the Risk and Performance Management Department at GIC Pte. Ltd. In this role, Dominic actively led the department in thinking of ways to be more effective in influencing risk‐return decisions across counterparty, investment and operational risk and establishing a robust risk management framework across GIC. From 1996 to 2012, Dominic worked in various risk related roles in UBS AG where he held various key appointments in Market Risk Control in Singapore and Europe including Head of Market Risk Control (Singapore), Credit Traded Products (Europe), Market Risk Methodology and Market Risk Analysis and Reporting.
Dominic graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University in 1994, he attained his CFA in 1997 and attended the Advanced Management Program (191) at Harvard Business School from September to October 2016.
Patrick is the Partner leading PwC Singapore’s Asset and Wealth Management Assurance, and Venture Hub practices. Patrick has more than 20 years of experience in the asset management audit and advisory space, including three years spent in London working across a broad spectrum of asset management related work. He has advised asset managers on setting up businesses in Southeast Asia and worked with regulators on issues affecting asset managers in Singapore.
In his role as PwC’s Venture Hub’s leader, Patrick has worked closely with investors and entrepreneurs co-creating value through disrupting the current status quo. His global experience has allowed him to act as an enabler to the ecosystem – connecting tech companies with investors, corporates and government agencies, and acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in the technology ecosystem. Patrick sits on the Singapore Association Community for Entrepreneurship’s Innovation committee working with global tech firms.
In addition, he has advised firms across the Asia-Pacific region on achieving compliance with GIPS and has conducted seminars for clients and IMAS on GIPS and performance related topics for alternative asset managers and asset owners. Patrick sits on the IMAS Risk and Performance Committee.
Qualifications:
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – Fellow
• Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants – Member
Madhu Gayer currently works in Singapore, in the asset management industry. He has over 25 years of investment industry experience, previously working in banking and asset management in Hong Kong and Australia, across the investment value chain, from portfolio management and trading, to risk & performance, quantitative analysis, ESG and reporting. He is an active participant and contributor to the industry through a variety of regional and global working groups and committees, for the CFA, the AIMA, and the UN PRI. He has authored and co-authored industry guidance papers, and helped shape various global best practices and standards. He is a FRM and a CIPM certificant, and holds a Master of Commerce from the University of Sydney.
Dominic Lim joined the Investment Office of the National University of Singapore (NUS) in October 2018 and is currently the Chief Operating Officer at the Investment Office.
Prior to joining NUS, Dominic was Managing Director and Director of the Risk and Performance Management Department at GIC Pte. Ltd. In this role, Dominic actively led the department in thinking of ways to be more effective in influencing risk‐return decisions across counterparty, investment and operational risk and establishing a robust risk management framework across GIC. From 1996 to 2012, Dominic worked in various risk related roles in UBS AG where he held various key appointments in Market Risk Control in Singapore and Europe including Head of Market Risk Control (Singapore), Credit Traded Products (Europe), Market Risk Methodology and Market Risk Analysis and Reporting.
Dominic graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University in 1994, he attained his CFA in 1997 and attended the Advanced Management Program (191) at Harvard Business School from September to October 2016.
Patrick is the Partner leading PwC Singapore’s Asset and Wealth Management Assurance, and Venture Hub practices. Patrick has more than 20 years of experience in the asset management audit and advisory space, including three years spent in London working across a broad spectrum of asset management related work. He has advised asset managers on setting up businesses in Southeast Asia and worked with regulators on issues affecting asset managers in Singapore.
In his role as PwC’s Venture Hub’s leader, Patrick has worked closely with investors and entrepreneurs co-creating value through disrupting the current status quo. His global experience has allowed him to act as an enabler to the ecosystem – connecting tech companies with investors, corporates and government agencies, and acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders in the technology ecosystem. Patrick sits on the Singapore Association Community for Entrepreneurship’s Innovation committee working with global tech firms.
In addition, he has advised firms across the Asia-Pacific region on achieving compliance with GIPS and has conducted seminars for clients and IMAS on GIPS and performance related topics for alternative asset managers and asset owners. Patrick sits on the IMAS Risk and Performance Committee.
Qualifications:
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales – Fellow
• Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants – Member
Feng Fang has more than 20 years of experience in capital markets in various capacities. Since joining UOBAM in 2013, Feng Fang has held several roles with increasing responsibilities. She oversees the Risk Management function covering Investment Risk, Performance Analytics and Operational Risk, and leads the team to establish and improve the firm’s risk management framework, risk guidelines, policies and procedures across the region. In addition, she also assists the CEO in carrying out regional projects for strategies and planning.
Feng Fang is a voting member of various committees covering risk and compliance, product, investment, pricing and technology, locally and regionally. She is also a director in the Supervisory Board of Ping An Fund Management Company, a member of UOBAM Taiwan’s Risk Management Committee and a member of UOBAM Thailand’s and UOBAM Vietnam’s Investment Committee respectively.
Before joining UOBAM, she worked as a Portfolio Manager, managing an equity long-short portfolio in JL Capital. Prior to that, she worked in risk and performance areas for Fullerton Fund Management, Temasek Holdings and APS Asset Management.
Feng Fang has more than 20 years of experience in capital markets in various capacities. Since joining UOBAM in 2013, Feng Fang has held several roles with increasing responsibilities. She oversees the Risk Management function covering Investment Risk, Performance Analytics and Operational Risk, and leads the team to establish and improve the firm’s risk management framework, risk guidelines, policies and procedures across the region. In addition, she also assists the CEO in carrying out regional projects for strategies and planning.
Feng Fang is a voting member of various committees covering risk and compliance, product, investment, pricing and technology, locally and regionally. She is also a director in the Supervisory Board of Ping An Fund Management Company, a member of UOBAM Taiwan’s Risk Management Committee and a member of UOBAM Thailand’s and UOBAM Vietnam’s Investment Committee respectively.
Before joining UOBAM, she worked as a Portfolio Manager, managing an equity long-short portfolio in JL Capital. Prior to that, she worked in risk and performance areas for Fullerton Fund Management, Temasek Holdings and APS Asset Management.
