Foord Asset Management is boosting its fund distribution reach from Singapore with the hire of a senior staff.
Dominik Oggenfuss joined Foord Asset Management(AM) as head of business development earlier this year as the asset management firm expands its presence in the financial hub. Oggenfuss started his career at J.P. Morgan in 2003 and moved to the J.P. Morgan Private bank in 2007 building up the swiss onshore business in Geneva and Zurich. Prior to Foord, he was heading Investor Relations for a private credit asset manager in Asia.
«The move to Foord allowed me to bring my business development capabilities to a firm with nearly 40 years of history, over $10 billion assets under management and established track-record with some of the most prestigious institutional investors and family offices. The goal is to build up the international business for Foord AM,» Oggenfuss told finews.asia.
Foord's Global Offering
Foord’s global offering is comprised of two building blocks - the Foord Global Equity Fund and the Foord International Fund. The former is an equity-only product benchmarked against the MSCI ACWI index and the latter is a multi-asset class product designed to deliver returns in excess of USD inflation.
In both products, the firm's core investment philosophy remains the same – achieve superior long-term returns by focusing on long-term earnings (over the long-term, stock prices follow earnings and it is a firm’s underlying earnings that determine its value); and take a truly long-term view.
Since it's founding, the firm's position has always been that ESG factors are an integral part of the research and portfolio management process. «As the long-term sustainability of income streams has always been fundamental to our investment philosophy, we have an acute awareness of non-financial factors embedded in our investment process,» said Foord Asset Management's Singapore CEO, Agnes Cai during a meeting with finews.asia.
