The presentation ceremony of Morningstar Singapore Awards 2016 was successfully held on 15 March, 2016 at the Singapore Exchange Auditorium. The Awards recognize retail funds and fund groups that added the most value for investors within the context of their relevant peer group in 2015 and over the longer term.
In his opening speech, Nick Cheung (below), Chief Executive Officer of Morningstar Asia, emphasized that Morningstar fund awards are key to help investors to make better investment decision and to recognize the outstanding achievement in investment management
Chew Sutat (below), Executive Vice President, Head of Equities & Fixed Income of Singapore Exchange gave his keynote speech, and elaborated on how the Singapore Exchange helps the local finance industry.
Anthony Serhan (below), Manager Director, Research Strategy, Asia Pacific of Morningstar talked about our Sustainability Investing Initiative. Sustainable Investing is values-based, value-driven, and impact-oriented. Investors, from institutional investors to mainstream, care about it more and more. Thus, Morningstar is launching a Sustainability rating to help investors think about sustainability and how they wish to see it reflected in their investments.
He also talked about the global asset flow trends we observed in 2015. For example, global flows slowed down considerably in 2015; indexing is far more popular in the U.S than elsewhere.
Wing Chan (below), Director of Fund Research of Morningstar Asia, gave the audience an update on Morningstar Research. The investment teams in Asia plan to broaden their research coverage in Asian Fixed Income (hard/soft currency, high yield, RMB), Asian Small Caps, Japan Equity and Mutual Recognition plays (north and southbound).
The winners of Morningstar Singapore Awards 2016 are:
from left: Shihan Abeyguna, Morningstar; Christy Goh, First State
Best Asia-Pacific Equity Fund - First State Asia Innovation
from left: Shihan Abeyguna, Morningstar; Ana Dhoraisingam, PineBridge
Best Global Equity Fund - PineBridge Global Focus Equity Fund Class L
from left: Shihan Abeyguna, Morningstar; Michael Chin, UBS
Best Greater China Equity Fund - UBS (Lux) Equity Fund China Opportunity (USD) P-Acc
from left: Shihan Abeyguna, Morningstar; Albert Tse, Schroders
Best Singapore Equity Fund - Schroder Singapore Trust A
from left: Shihan Abeyguna, Morningstar; Sunny Leung, State Street
Best Asia Bond Fund - ABF Pan Asia Bond Index Fund
from left: Nick Cheung, Morningstar; Albert Tse, Schroders; Anthony Serhan, Morningstar
Best Equity Fund House – Schroders
from left: Nick Cheung, Morningstar; Patrick Yeo; Fullerton; Anthony Serhan, Morningstar
Best Fixed-Income Fund House – Fullerton Fund Management
