Andrew Swan

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Andrew Swan
Man Asset Management (Ireland)
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Andrew Swan, Managing Director, is the Head of Asian Equities for the Fundamental Equity division of BlackRock’s Alpha Strategies Group. He is responsible for managing several regional equity portfolios, setting regional equity investment strategy and developing BlackRock’s Asian investment platform and capabilities. Before joining BlackRock in August 2011, Andrew spent a 17-year investment career with JP Morgan. He initially joined as a research analyst in Sydney in 1994, before transferring to Singapore in 2002 to join JP Morgan's Pacific Regional team as head of Asia Pacific media research. In 2004, Andrew took up his role as a portfolio manager with JF Asset Management (wholly owned by JP Morgan) and was subsequently responsible for managing over USD 5bn in Asia Pacific equity portfolios. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2005. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Accounting and Finance) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1993.

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Annualised total return over 18.6 years

+8.6%

Cumulative performance (% growth)

	1 year	3 years	5 years	7 years	10 years
Andrew Swan	-0.4	-13.1	11.8	21.3	94.3
Peer Group Composite	0.1	-3.8	22.6	32.1	100.0
Over / Under	-0.5	-9.3	-10.8	-10.8	-5.7

Total return for Andrew Swan

Rolling Alpha Quartile:

Discrete three year periods

Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.


Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4

53-89m

65-101m

77-113m

89-125m

101-137m

Discrete calendar year performance : Andrew Swan

Discrete performance

	0-12m	12-24m	24-36m	36-48m	48-60m	60-72m	72-84m	84-96m	96-108m	108-120m

Andrew Swan	-0.4	10.3	-20.9	43.9	-11.2	2.4	5.5	35.4	-7.3	27.6
Peer Group Composite	0.1	4.9	-8.4	47.9	-13.8	2.1	5.5	33.3	-8.2	23.7
Over / Under	-0.5	5.4	-12.5	-4.0	2.6	0.3	0.0	2.1	0.9	3.9

Performance vs peer group composite: Andrew Swan

How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.

Overall markets

Outperformed peer group composite

6 years

out of a possible 10

Overall markets

Underperformed peer group composite

4 years

out of a possible 10

Rising markets

Outperformed peer group composite

4 years

out of a possible 7

Falling markets

Outperformed peer group composite

2 years

out of a possible 3

Funds currently managed

Fund	Sole/Co-managed	Sector	Periods

Man GLG Asia (ex-Japan) Equity	Lead manager	FO Equity - Asia Pacific ex Japan	since Oct 20 2020 to present

Funds managed previously

Fund	Periods

BlackRock GF India	since Aug 10 2011 to Mar 31 2020
BlackRock GF Asian Dragon	since Sep 30 2011 to Feb 29 2020
BlackRock GF Asian Growth Leaders	since Oct 31 2012 to Feb 29 2020
BlackRock Asia	since Jun 28 2013 to Feb 29 2020
JPMorgan Asia Equity High Income Fund	since Jun 13 2005 to May 16 2011
BlackRock Asia Special Situations	since Apr 30 2014 to Feb 29 2020
Blackrock Institutional Equity Emerging Markets	since Jun 30 2017 to fund close
BlackRock GF ASEAN Leaders	since Aug 08 2012 to Apr 03 2017
BlackRock GF China	since Jun 21 2013 to Apr 03 2017
BlackRock Asia Pacific Absolute Return	since Aug 31 2016 to Apr 01 2020
BlackRock BGF Emerging Markets	since Jun 30 2017 to Feb 29 2020
BlackRock Emerging Markets	since Jun 30 2017 to Feb 29 2020
BlackRock GF Asia Pacific Equity Income	since Jul 02 2014 to Jun 29 2015
Blackrock Institutional Equity Pacific	since Jul 02 2014 to Jun 29 2015
JPM Asia Pacific Ex Japan Equity	since Jun 01 2010 to May 15 2011
BlackRock GF Pacific Equity	since Jan 08 2014 to Jul 01 2014