$830 Billion Manulife Investment Management Hires Australia QIC (Queensland Investment Corporation) 15-Year Veteran Shiree Hocking as Managing Director, Global Strategic Partnerships
7th January 2025 | Hong Kong
Manulife Investment Management ($830 billion AUM & AuA) has hired Australia QIC (Queensland Investment Corporation) 15-year veteran Shiree Hocking as Managing Director, Global Strategic Partnerships (2024 December). Shiree Hocking joined QIC 15 years ago in 2010, and held senior roles including as Head of Client Services, Client Relationship Director (Strategic Partnerships) and Director (Institutional Distribution, Middle East & Asia) in Australia, New York & Singapore. In 2024 late November, Canada insurer Manulife ($56 billion market value) announced the appointment of CFO Phil Witherington as CEO to succeed Roy Gori who is retiring in 2025 May (8/5/25). In 2024 November, Manulife Wealth & Asset Management hired Citigroup 32-year veteran Fabio Fontainha as Head of Asia (effective 2025 February), succeeding Michael Dommermuth who is departing at the end of 2024. Earlier in 2024 November, Manulife Investment Management appointed Charlie Dutton as Chief Investment Officer of Global Emerging Market Equities in a newly created role managing $25 billion AUM across Asia & Emerging Markets Equity strategies. Senior Portfolio Manager & Head of Emerging Markets Equity Kathryn Langridge will be retiring in 2025 October, and CIO Asia ex-Japan Ronald Chan is departing Manulife Investment Management. In 2024 October, Manulife Investment Management hired ex-Goldman Sachs & Bank of Singapore Calvin Lim as Alternatives Investment Specialist in Singapore. Calvin Lim has more than 10 years of experience at Goldman Sachs in Private Wealth Management and Bank of Singapore (Product Specialist in Private Markets & Alternatives team). In 2024 February, Manulife Investment Management hired BlackRock Anne Valentine Andrews as Global Head of Private Markets. Anne Valentine Andrews joins from BlackRock after 9 years including as Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate.
“ $830 Billion Manulife Investment Management Hires Australia QIC (Queensland Investment Corporation) 15-Year Veteran Shiree Hocking as Managing Director, Global Strategic Partnerships “
$830 Billion Manulife Investment Management Appoints Charlie Dutton as Chief Investment Officer of Global Emerging Market Equities in Newly Created Role Managing $25 Billion AUM Across Asia & Emerging Markets Equity Strategies, Senior Portfolio Manager & Head of Emerging Markets Equity Kathryn Langridge to Retire in 2025 October, CIO Asia ex-Japan Ronald Chan to Depart Manulife Investment Management
16th November 2024 – Manulife Investment Management with $830 billion AUM has appointed Charlie Dutton as Chief Investment Officer of Global Emerging Market Equities in a newly created role managing $25 billion AUM across Asia & Emerging Markets Equity strategies. Senior Portfolio Manager & Head of Emerging Markets Equity Kathryn Langridge will be retiring in 2025 October, and CIO Asia ex-Japan Ronald Chan is departing Manulife Investment Management. Announcement (12/11/24): “Manulife Investment Management today announced enhancement to its equity organization in leveraging expertise across its Asia and Emerging Markets teams to improve investment experience for its clients. Charlie Dutton, an equity investment leader with substantial experience in Asia, is named to the newly created role of Chief Investment Officer, Global Emerging Market Equities. In this new role, Charlie will oversee and align our Asia ex-Japan and emerging market equity capabilities, ensuring we leverage local resources and insights across the organization. Manulife Investment Management has operated in emerging markets for more than a century. Today, it has one of the largest equity teams based in Asia with over 90 investment professionals located across 10 markets in the region. By combining local insight with deep investment expertise, Manulife Investment Management will be able to leverage deeper information advantage over other asset managers based outside of Asia. The combined Emerging Market Equities organization manages over US$25 billion in AUM across Asia and emerging markets equity strategies. Charlie will be spending a considerable amount of time in Asia with the extensive investment teams across the region in the coming months. He will continue to be based in London, affording him the opportunity to work and communicate with the investment teams in London and across Asia effectively, ensuring connections between each. Charlie brings more than 27 years of investment experience to this role, including over 25 years of Asia equity investment experience with seven years in Hong Kong as well as South Africa and London. Prior to joining Manulife Investment Management’s Emerging Markets Equity team earlier this year, Charlie was a fund manager at Ninety One as part of the Global Quality Capability team that managed assets across five strategies. Before Ninety One, Charlie was a founding partner at Coupland Cardiff, an Asian investment firm, where he spent 10 years managing Asian focused equity funds. Prior to that, he was based in Hong Kong and served as director of Asia-Pacific research at JPMorgan and as a Hong Kong/China consumer analyst at JF Securities. Charlie started his career at HSBC based in Hong Kong as a HK/China Analyst. At the same time, Manulife Investment Management announced that Kathryn Langridge, Senior Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, and Head of Emerging Markets Equity team, has shared her intention to retire effective October 31, 2025, after an impressive investment career spanning over 40 years. Meanwhile, Ronald Chan, CIO, Asia ex-Japan Equity, is departing Manulife Investment Management.” In 2024 October, Manulife Investment Management hired ex-Goldman Sachs & Bank of Singapore Calvin Lim as Alternatives Investment Specialist in Singapore. Calvin Lim has more than 10 years of experience at Goldman Sachs in Private Wealth Management and Bank of Singapore (Product Specialist in Private Markets & Alternatives team). In 2024 February, Manulife Investment Management hired BlackRock Anne Valentine Andrews as Global Head of Private Markets. Anne Valentine Andrews joins from BlackRock after 9 years including as Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate.
Steve Medina, Chief Investment Officer, Global Equities, Manulife Investment Management: “We are confident Charlie’s deep investment experience, including over 25 years investing in Asia equity, makes him ideally suited to take on the role of CIO, Emerging Markets Equities. We look forward to his leadership, combined with the support of our Asia investment teams, in building upon our strong foundation in the region, and leading our Asia business into the future.”
Colin Purdie, Global Chief Investment Officer, Public Markets, Manulife Investment Management: “Collaboration and engagement have always been at the heart of our investment culture, and our emerging markets and Asia equity teams have participated in a variety of forums to exchange ideas and insights. The closer alignment of the Asia equity team with the global Emerging Markets equity organization formalizes the longstanding sharing of ideas and insights between our Asia and our emerging markets equity teams. We believe this alignment will translate into improved research sharing and investment decision making, and will enhance our ability to create custom-tailored solutions to meet client needs.”
Charlie Dutton, Chief Investment Officer, Global Emerging Market Equities: “The alignment of the Asia and the Emerging Markets equity teams is a testament to the critical role Asia plays in today’s equity markets, and further draws attention to the deep pool of talent in Manulife’s investment organization. By globalizing and strengthening this capability, Manulife Investment Management is better positioned to deliver for its clients while expanding the pipeline of research and insight the Emerging Markets equity team can deliver for other capabilities at the firm on a global basis.”
Manulife Investment Management – As part of Manulife Financial Corporation, Manulife Wealth & Asset Management provides global investment, financial advice, and retirement plan services to 19 million individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. Our mission is to make decisions easier and lives better by empowering people today to invest for a better tomorrow. As a committed partner to our clients and as a responsible steward of investor capital, we offer a heritage of risk management, deep expertise across public and private markets, and comprehensive retirement plan services. We seek to provide better investment and impact outcomes and to help people confidently save and invest for a more secure financial future.
$830 Billion Manulife Investment Management Hires ex-Goldman Sachs & Bank of Singapore Calvin Lim as Alternatives Investment Specialist in Singapore, 10 Years at Goldman Sachs & Bank of Singapore
8th October 2024 – Manulife Investment Management with $830 billion AUM has hired ex-Goldman Sachs & Bank of Singapore Calvin Lim as Alternatives Investment Specialist in Singapore. Calvin Lim has more than 10 years of experience at Goldman Sachs in Private Wealth Management and Bank of Singapore (Product Specialist in Private Markets & Alternatives team). Manulife Investment Management (3/10/24): “Manulife Investment Management announced the appointment of Calvin Lim as Alternatives Investment Specialist, based in Singapore, effective today. He is responsible for supporting the efforts of Manulife Investment Management in bringing the firm’s range of private market capabilities, ranging from private equity, private credit, real assets, and more, to Asia. He will work alongside distribution teams in the region to deliver the firm’s suite of private market investment solutions to clients. Prior to joining Manulife Investment Management, Calvin was Product Specialist in the Private Markets & Alternatives team at Bank of Singapore, where he was responsible for the origination, due diligence and advisory of private market funds and direct investments, and hedge fund solutions for the global private wealth clients. He started his career in private wealth management with Goldman Sachs in Singapore after receiving his Bachelor of Business Management degree from Singapore Management University.” In 2024 February, Manulife Investment Management hired BlackRock Anne Valentine Andrews as Global Head of Private Markets. Anne Valentine Andrews joins from BlackRock after 9 years including as Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate.
Hui-Jian Koh, Chief Executive Officer of Manulife Investment Management Singapore: “In a continuously evolving market environment, we are committed to meeting investors’ income needs by providing relevant investment solutions, of which our private markets capabilities are one of the core components. Manulife Investment Management is recognized in the industry as one of the leading providers of innovative investment solutions, as evident by our recent award wins, and we bring onboard some of the brightest minds in the industry to our fulfill our ambitions. The appointment of Calvin highlights our emphasis on providing alternative investment solutions to investors in Singapore and across Asia as they continue to search for diversified sources of income.”
Alex Catterick, Global Head of Alternative Investment, Manulife Investment Management: “Calvin’s experience in private markets and alternatives, along with his background in wealth management, adds to the value we provide to clients. His understanding of local market dynamics and nuances supports the global team in devising and bringing the most appropriate private market investment solutions to investors in the region. We look forward to the contributions from Calvin in creating positive impact to our clients’ portfolios and the continued growth of our private market business in Asia and across the globe.”
$746 Billion Manulife Investment Management Hires BlackRock Anne Valentine Andrews as Global Head of Private Markets, 9 Years at BlackRock Including as Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate, Co-Head & COO of Infrastructure Platform at Morgan Stanley
15th February 2024 – Manulife Investment Management with $746 billion AUM (Assets under Management) has hired BlackRock Anne Valentine Andrews as Global Head of Private Markets. Anne Valentine Andrews joins from BlackRock after 9 years including as Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate. Prior to BlackRock, Anne Valentine Andrews was Co-Head & COO of Infrastructure Platform at Morgan Stanley. Manulife Investment Management: “Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM), the global asset manager serving 17 million investors, today has announced Anne Valentine Andrews will join the firm on March 4 as Global Head of Private Markets. With more than 25 years of asset management and alternatives experience, Ms. Valentine Andrews will lead all investment teams and direct the overall strategy, business development and growth of Manulife IM’s private markets business. She and her team will also work closely with the firm’s global product group and the business leads to drive private market product innovation across the Institutional, Retail and Retirement channels. Based in New York, Ms. Valentine Andrews will report to Paul Lorentz, President and CEO of Manulife IM. Ms. Valentine Andrews joins Manulife IM from BlackRock, where she spent the past nine years, most recently serving as Managing Director, Global Head of Infrastructure and Real Estate. Under her leadership, BlackRock became a top 10 infrastructure manager and top 50 real estate manager by AUM. At BlackRock, Ms. Valentine Andrews served on its Global Operating Committee, Human Capital Committee, and the Equity Private Markets Executive Committee. Prior to BlackRock, she was Co-Head and Chief Operating Officer for the Morgan Stanley Infrastructure platform and worked at Macquarie Bank in both Melbourne and New York. In addition to her strong business and commercial acumen, Ms. Valentine Andrews is an avid supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and promoting women in the financial services industry. Manulife IM and its general account currently manage approximately $120 billion USD of private markets assets, such as private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, timberland, and agriculture, and was recently recognized as the world’s largest natural capital investment manager.”
Paul Lorentz, President & CEO of Manulife IM: “We are excited to welcome Anne to our firm given her expertise and deep alternatives background. We are confident that her leadership will accelerate the growth of our private markets platform and deliver more for our clients. Individual and institutional investors alike are demanding broader access to private markets to strengthen their portfolios, find diverse sources of alpha, and achieve their investment goals. We’re committed to the continued expansion of our global private markets platform to help our clients pursue attractive opportunities for long-term returns.”
Valentine Andrews, Global Head of Private Markets, Manulife IM: “I’m delighted to join Manulife Investment Management to lead private markets globally. The firm has over a century of strong history from its roots as an insurer and has a foundation of world-class investment performance, risk management, sustainability, and client-centricity. Manulife IM’s ability to manage alternative assets for clients and within its insurance platform allows for additional scale that can create exciting product development initiatives and co-investment opportunities. I look forward to working alongside the team to continue delivering for clients and to accelerate the growth this platform is uniquely poised to capture.”
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