Asian Investor Outlook

Angela Mackay is Global Publisher of FT Live and Managing Director of FT Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, she is a member of the FT’s global board. In Asia Pacific, Ms Mackay focuses on developing the group’s significant potential across the region. This includes FTChinese.com, the mainland's leading foreign-owned, Chinese-language news site, as well as the FT's burgeoning executive education business.

As Global Publisher for FT Live, Ms Mackay leads business and strategy development for events, membership and communities, such as 125 Forum and the Non-Executive Directors (NED) programmes. The FT stages more than 200 events around the world annually. Ms Mackay joined the FT in 2003 on its editorial team, serving as the Asia investment editor for two years.

Before joining the FT, she was Asia editor for Sunday Business from 1998 to 2001. Her previous roles include editor at The Economist Group, supervising producer at CNBC, deputy news editor at The Times in London, and UK correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.

Ms Mackay is a non-executive director of the FT/IE Corporate Learning Alliance, and a board member of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Asian Youth Orchestra and the Sovereign Art Foundation. She holds a BA in English Literature and an LLB, and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.

Ng Yong Ngee is Chief Executive Officer and one of the founding partners of Tahan Capital Management. He is responsible for its capital allocation, portfolio construction and risk management. He has more than 24 years of trading, investing and management experience. Mr Ng was previously with UBS where he was head of Emerging Markets Asia fixed income business. He was also a member of the APAC and GEM FICC Executive Committee responsible for capital commitment, risk management and operational and control matters, and he directly managed proprietary trading risk and led a large team of traders.  Mr Ng holds a Bachelor of Business from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Masters degree in applied finance from Macquarie University, Sydney.

Tetsuya Iguchi has been Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Headquarters for Asia of Nikkei Inc. since 2014. He joined Nikkei Inc. in 1985 and has held various posts as a staff writer and an editor, including Deputy Managing Editor, Editorial Bureau (Tokyo), Nikkei Inc, from 2013 to 2014 and Editor-in-Chief for the Nikkei Business Daily from 2011 to 2013. He also worked in London as a chief correspondent from 1995 to 1998. He has a BA in Political Science from Waseda University, Japan.

Alex Ng joined BNP Paribas Investment Partners (the successor of Fortis Investments and ABN AMRO Asset Management) in 1988, and has 28 years of investment experience acquired in the US, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and served on the board of governors of the CFA Institute from 2003 to 2006 and on the Listing Committee of The Hong Kong Stock Exchange from May 2006 to July 2010.

Taimur Baig is Managing Director and Chief Economist Asia at Deutsche Bank.  He joined the bank in 2007 and heads up the Asia Economics team with responsibility for the analysis and forecasts for the ten key Asian economies.  He also advises the bank’s management and clients on regional risks and opportunities.  Prior to joining the bank, Dr Baig spent eight years at the International Monetary Fund, based in Washington, DC, where his last position was Senior Economist. During his career in the IMF, he covered monetary policy and exchange rate issues in Japan, India, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the Philippines. He also worked for two years in the organization's fiscal affairs department, focusing on fiscal policy implementation in emerging economies.  Dr Baig studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the London School of Economics, and Wabash College. He has published numerous articles and reviews on economic policy and analysis, including in Review of International Economics and IMF Staff Papers.

Bryan Goh is Bordier & Cie’s chief investment officer for Singapore. He has over 20 years of investment management experience, with a focus on finding investment opportunities and solutions in  under-researched, and overlooked regions of the economic and financial topology.  Before joining Bordier & Cie, he served as head of alternative investments at DBS Private Bank for over four years, during which he developed and originated liquid, regulated and transparent mutual fund products for clients. Prior to that, Mr Goh was co-founder and partner at First Avenue, a global alternative investment advisory and capital placement firm with business lines encompassing both private funds and direct corporate transactions. During his time at First Avenue, he also served as its head of origination and due diligence. He began his career in 1994 as an equities trader and later attained a portfolio manager position at Arab Bank PLC in London. In 2004, he joined the OAKS Family Office as a director, and was also appointed as its principal manager for hedge fund investments. Mr Goh holds an MSc in Economics, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.

Nitish Agarwal has more than 20 years of experience in underwriting, structuring and managing private debt in Asia. He has invested more than $500 million in direct lending in Asia over the last four years at Olympus Capital Asia Credit. Before setting up the credit platform at Olympus Capital, Mr Agarwal was Managing Director of the Global Financing Solutions (Asia) business at Barclays. He holds a degree in electronics engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.