Asia Pacific Investment Grade Bond (SGD) Strategy

Endre is Senior Managing Director, Deputy CIO, Global Fixed Income & CIO, Global Emerging Markets Fixed Income for Manulife Investment Management, and is lead manager for the company’s pan-Asian fixed-income strategies. Endre has extensive investment experience in developed Asian markets, having managed single and multiple currency funds with exposure to Asian sovereign and corporate debt. Before joining the company, he worked as a senior fixed-income portfolio manager for DBS Asset Management and, prior to this, he was a fixed-income portfolio manager for Hermes Investment Management and F&C Management in London.

• Education: B.Fin., University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde Business School
• Joined the company: 2008
• Began career: 1999

Neal is a senior portfolio manager with Manulife IM’s Emerging Markets Debt Team. Based in London, Neal is responsible for driving Asia insights into our emerging market debt portfolios.

Neal is an experienced portfolio manager of multi- and single currency Asia Pacific bond mandates invested in both sovereign and corporate debt. Before relocating to London in 2017, Neal worked for more than eight years at Manulife Investment Management’s Hong Kong office. Prior to that, he served as a dedicated analyst and trader for the strategic income and international fixed income strategies of Manulife’s Boston office. Earlier in his career, he was an investment associate at State Street Global Advisors in the U.S. Neal is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Boston, Inc.

• Education: College of the Holy Cross, BA in Economics; University of Notre Dame, MBA
• Joined the company: 2005
• Began career: 1999

Based in Hong Kong, Jimond is a managing director and portfolio manager for Manulife Investment Management. He supports the firm’s pan-Asian bond strategies with an emphasis on Asian credit markets. Before joining the company, Jimond was an executive director with the highly ranked credit research team at UBS Investment Bank, where he focused on high-yield corporate bonds. Prior to that, he worked at UBS proprietary credit trading and subsequently moved to a credit hedge fund seeded by a world-renowned alternative investment manager. Jimond has extensive knowledge of the entire Asian credit spectrum, from public and private placement bonds to special situation and distressed debts. He began his career as an accountant with KPMG. Jimond holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant designations.

• Education: B.B.A., University of Hong Kong; M.B.A., Cornell University
• Joined the company: 2013
• Began career: 1998

Based in Singapore, Murray is a Senior Managing Director, CIO, Asia (ex-Japan) Fixed Income and lead portfolio manager of our Singapore-based fixed income strategies. He also supports the pan-Asian fixed-income team in the management of pan-Asian strategies. Murray has 25 years of industry experience, 20 of which in portfolio management in markets including London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Most recently, Murray was the head of Asian fixed income (based in Singapore) for Standish Mellon Asset Management. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with First State Investments covering currencies, global bonds, and credit.

• Education: B.Com., B.Econ., University of Newcastle, Australia
• Joined the company: 2016
• Began career: 1996