Vis Nayar

Eastspring Investments has appointed Vis Nayar as chief investment officer, effective June 3.

Based in Singapore, he will report to chief executive officer Bill Maldonado and will join the firm’s executive management committee.

A seasoned investment leader, Nayar joins Eastspring from HSBC Asset Management where he spent the past 25 years, most recently as global chief investment officer for equities overseeing the global active equity business.

Prior to that, he was the European and UK chief investment officer, and before that, the global head for quantitative equity research and head of systematic equities.

Nayar holds an MSc in finance from the London Business School and a BSc in electrical engineering from Imperial College London. He is a CFA charterholder.

Eastspring, the Asia-focused asset management business of Prudential plc, manages US$216 billion (as of September 30 2023) of assets on behalf of institutional and retail clients.