Fostering a Culture of Inclusion and Growth for Women
Bloomberg Women's Buy-Side Network (BWBN) Panelists Cassandra Crowe (BWBN Australia Chapter) - Vice President, T. Rowe Price Mark Konyn (BWBN Hong Kong Chapter) - Group Chief Investment Officer, AIA Lakshmi Iyer (BWBN India Chapter) - President, CIO and Head of Products, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Chunyen Liu (BWBN Singapore Chapter) - CIO, AIA Singapore
Moderated by Nitin Jaiswal - Head of Asia Pacific External Relations & Government Affairs, Bloomberg L.P.
Speakers
Cassandra Crowe
Vice President
T. Rowe Price
With 20 years of experience across financial services, Cassandra Crowe has worked internationally throughout her professional career and now resides in Sydney, Australia, where she serves as vice president for T. Rowe Price, a global investment management firm. Cassandra is passionate about financial services and sees finance as a way to improve our communities in a range of forums; raising financial literacy standards, improving retirement outcomes and promoting financial wellness. Cassandra values giving back to the industry and currently serves as a board director of the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) Society Sydney, who seek to raise the standards of ethics, integrity, and education. She is also a member of the CFA Australia Diversity Committee that works to create a more mindful and inclusive industry. Cassandra further serves as an advisor for a FinTech, Super-Rewards, which fuses technology and e-commerce to help bridge the gender superannuation gap and is an executive founding director for the Australian and New Zealand Bloomberg Women’s Buy Side Network. Cassandra is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a CFA charterholder, and the recipient of a degree in economics from the University of Tasmania. Cassandra was named in the Top 100 Australian Professionals List 2020 for her contribution to financial services. However, her greatest achievement is her family and being Mum to her 6-year-old daughter, Penny.
Lakshmi Iyer
President and Chief Investment Officer (Debt) & Head Products
Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Company
Lakshmi Iyer heads fixed income and products team at KMAMC. She has been with the organisation since the last 20 years. Joining KMAMC in 1999 as a fund manager, Lakshmi was responsible for credit research, deal execution, managing fund performance across all debt funds and assisting sales in client interaction. In addition to that, she has been a portfolio specialist, and managed product related initiatives such as product pricing and coordination with the funds management and sales team in that role. Prior to joining Kotak, Lakshmi worked with Credence Analytics Pvt Ltd, as a research analyst where she was tracking corporate bond markets in India and generating research reports. She was also instrumental in conceiving various financial software tools in collaboration with software and technical teams. Lakshmi holds an MBA degree in finance from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. She loves exploring new places for travelling, is a big food lover, and is an ardent movie buff.
Chunyen Liu
Chief Investment Officer
AIA Singapore
Liu Chunyen is the Chief Investment Officer of AIA Singapore and she is responsible for spearheading the company’s investment strategies. This includes developing and enhancing AIA Singapore’s Strategic Asset Allocation, Asset Liability Management, and product development processes. A veteran in the life insurance Industry, she has worked and lived in New York, Hong Kong and now Singapore with extensive experiences in multi-national insurance and financial service companies.
Mark Konyn
Group Chief Investment Officer
AIA
Dr. Mark Konyn is the Group Chief Investment Officer responsible for providing oversight of the management of the investment portfolios of the Group as well as supervising and supporting the many investment professionals throughout the Group. He is a director of various companies within the Group including Chairman of AIA Investment Management Private Limited and AIA Investment Management HK Limited. He joined the Group in September 2015. Dr. Konyn joined AIA from Cathay Conning Asset Management, where he was Chief Executive Officer responsible for the company’s investment business and strategic expansion in the region. He had held senior positions at Allianz Global Investors (where he was Asia-Pacific CEO for RCM Global Investors), Fidelity Investments and Prudential UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and holds a Diploma from the London Business School in Investment Management, having previously completed his Ph.D. in Operational Research sponsored by the UK Government.
Nitin Jaiswal
Head of Government Relations & External Relations, Asia Pacific
Bloomberg
Nitin Jaiswal is Head of Government Affairs & External Relations for Bloomberg in Asia-Pacific, the world's most trusted source for real-time and historical financial data, news, research and analytics. Based in Singapore, Mr. Jaiswal works with government, regulators, business leaders and think tanks to help advance market development in emerging and developed countries. Through strategic initiatives, spanning financial market structure to green finance, he looks to leverage Bloomberg's global network and expertise as a leading data and information company to affect positive change and accelerate development in Asia, a region that is shaping global markets. Mr. Jaiswal has held various senior leadership roles managing key business for Asia-Pac since joining the company in India in 1997.