HSBC Global Asset Management is an investment manager with $470.2bn in AUM (as of 31 March 2018). It was formed in 1973 in Hong Kong as Wardley, a wholly-owned merchant banking subsidiary, changing its name to HSBC Asset Management 13 years later.
The company manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also launches and manages hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investments markets across the globe.
HSBC Global Asset Management is also the principal partner of Investment Week's Women in Investment Awards. Click here for more information about this year's ceremony, taking place on 28 November in London.
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched an RDR ready share class on its passive fund range.
HSBC Global Asset Management has combined the funds within its multi-asset International Selection range with the bank's retail consumer World Selection offering.
HSBC Income fund of funds manager Julian York said his policy of "not looking to shoot the lights out" has helped guide him to the top quartile of the IMA Mixed Investment 20-60% Shares sector.
HSBC GAM has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled frontier markets fund, the HSBC GIF Frontier Markets fund.
Sridhar Chandrasekharan has been promoted to chief executive of HSBC Global Asset Management as former boss John Flint moves to a senior role in the wider group.
HSBC Global Asset Management (GAM) is to launch three low-cost portfolios, offering access to global equity and bond markets as well as alternative investments.