Richard Chan

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Biography

Mr. Richard Chan serves as Partner & Head of Equities at Avanda Investment Management. He is responsible for the global equity sub-strategy within the Avanda Global Multi-Asset Fund and is the portfolio manager for the Avanda Asia Vantage Fund. Mr. Chan was a Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Equities in GIC. In addition to leading the Asian equities investment team, he also directly managed a regional Asian equities portfolio since 2002. At the corporate level, he led the Vietnam Interest Group and was a member of the China Business Group. As Head of Asia Pacific Equities from 2008 to 2015, Mr. Chan led a team of analysts and portfolio managers responsible for managing GIC's Pan Asia Equities portfolio. He became an equities portfolio manager for the Asia Pacific region in GIC in 2002. At various points, he had primary coverage for India, Korea, Malaysia, and China before he was appointed Head of the team. Mr. Chan was the lead portfolio manager for China when GIC was granted the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) license to invest in A-shares in 2005. Mr. Chan joined GIC in 1994 as an Investment Officer and spent 6 years with the Foreign Exchange Department, including 2 years in GIC's London office. During that time, he was active in G7 currencies prior to the introduction of the Euro, and in Asian currencies after the Asian Financial Crisis. He was also a founding member of the Currency Quantitative Group where he developed and implemented a systematic FX trading model. Mr. Chan graduated with a Bachelor of Business (First Class honors) from Nanyang Technological University in 1994. He earned an MBA from Columbia University in 2002 and attended the Stanford Executive Program in 2013. Mr. Chan served on the Board of Trustees for the Ministry of Defence SAVER-Premium Fund from 2009-2018. He is a CFA charterholder.