J.P. Morgan Asset Management says Kenneth Tsang has joined J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets as managing director and head of research and strategy, Real Estate Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Tsang will lead the real estate research and strategy team for J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets in Asia Pacific.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s team of over 400 global real assets professionals include nearly 50 real estate personnel operating from six offices throughout Asia Pacific – Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
Commenting on the hire, David Chen, Head of Real Estate Asia Pacific at J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets, says, “As investors around the world seek to increase and broaden their real assets allocations, they are finding the Asia Pacific real estate markets an attractive source of diversification, total return and yield.”
Prior to his appointment, Tsang was a managing director at RED Capital Asia. He has been working in the real estate industry focused on Asia Pacific since 1993. Earlier in his career, he was head of Asia-Pacific Research & Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management and held various research roles at Sanford Bernstein, ING Real Estate Investment Management (now CBRE Global Investors) and Jones Lang LaSalle.