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Institutional Excellence Awards dinner 2018
The best of Asia's institutional investors gathered in Singapore on December 5 for our annual awards for asset owners.
The Institutional Excellence Awards dinner took place at the Westin in Singapore on December 5
Greg Clerk, deputy CIO of Hostplus (right), named best pension fund. Award presenter: Alex Francois of DWS (left)
Lena Teoh, CIO of Prudential Singapore, collects the award for Prudential Asia, named best insurance company. Award presenter: Sam Manchanda of DWS
Bruce Tomlinson of Sunsuper, named best institution for Australia and New Zealand
Prakash Kannan of GIC accepts the award for best institution in SE Asia. Award presenter: Thomas Hu of DWS (left)
Takashi Jimba, managing director of research and actuary department, GPIF, named best institution in Japan and also best in the innovation category
Liu Li-ju of Bureau of Labor Funds, the winner in the category for Taiwan. She also won the award for best individual contribution to institutional investment
William Scott of Commonwealth Superannuation Corp, named best for governance. Award presenter: Alex Francois of DWS (left)
Ben Rudd, CIO of Prudential HK, named best in Hong Kong. Award presenter: Thomas Hu of DWS (left)
Ismail Zakaria of KWAP, named best for ESG. Award presenter: Yixin Chan of DWS (left)
Group photo of the award winners
