An interview with fund manager Tay Jun Hao and why he loves Asian property stocks for returns

In this exclusive feature, we interview fund manager Tay Jun Hao who manages the Heritage Global Capital Fund at Swiss Asia Financial Services Pte Ltd.

Tay has over six years of experience in the financial markets and from the period of January 2012 to September 2017, he achieved a cumulative return of +146.03% or an annualized return of +16.95%.

In 2013, Tay won the Orbis Stock Picking Challenge held by Orbis Investment Management Limited, a global investment management firm with over $30 billion in AUM. He beat participants from Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, University College London and the London Business School, by generating an absolute return of 55.7%, — an outperformance of 21.7% against the benchmark over the course of one year.

Tay graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from University College London, and is also a frequent guest speaker at his alma …