Coupland Cardiff CEO: India is the new Japan - but with better demographics

Positions EMs outlook for next 12 months

Jayna Rana
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Richard Cardiff, CEO and co-founder of specialist Asian and Japanese fund house Coupland Cardiff Asset Management, tells Jayna Rana why he is positive about 2019 despite recession fears and explains the group's product development process, including the thinking behind its latest venture into India.

Richard Cardiff founded specialist Asian and Japanese fund house Coupland Cardiff Asset Management (CCAM) alongside Angus Coupland in 2005, after the duo left Jardine Fleming AM to pursue a desire to run more concentrated portfolios with limited capacity and not be so focused on scale. They launched the firm with an Asian absolute return hedge fund and have since expanded its range to a suite of eight mandates including a mixture of Asia, Japan and, more recently - India-focused funds, amounting to just under $3bn in assets under management. The boutique firm prides itself on not bein...

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