Asian institutional investors focus on quantitative risk management

Investors in Asian institutions are catching up with European and North American counterparts in demanding quantitative risk measures and risk numbers as part of their investment mandate, says risk head at AmInvestment Group in Malaysia

Asian institutional investors are increasingly looking for quantitative risk reports and numbers when managing their portfolios, according to Addy Suhut, head of risk and analytics at Malaysia-based AmInvestment Group.

A combination of corporate culture and issues over data quality have meant that Asian institutional investors have traditionally made much less use of quantitative metrics than their