Anton Casey unintentionally became an internet sensation with his distasteful comments about Singaporeans. Singaporeans were quick to rebut him and hatred spread like wildfire on social media. Things could not get better when Crossinvest Asia officially announced the sacking.

I am definitely upset when a foreigner had such impressions of us. The information about his background were not concrete, and I can only speculate that he was a wealth manager or a “high-class” financial advisor who served the rich in Singapore. Crossinvest has many companies in various countries and it manages funds. I believe wealth managers like Anton Casey were promoting them. It seems like the flagship fund for the Singapore Branch was the Crossinvest Asia Pacific Fund.

I found the fund performance from this website.

I must say the performance was quite bad. It under-performed MSCI Asia Pacific and an investor would have lost close to 30% of his ...