Former CIC stock picker Yu Bin plans China fund, sources say
Yu Bin, a former managing director at China's sovereign wealth fund, plans to start a fund focused on China equities, sources said.
Yu Bin, a former managing director at China's sovereign wealth fund, plans to start a fund focused on China equities, sources said.
Institutional investors globally have been scouting for China-based managers with international experience, who can pick stocks set to benefit from growth in the world's second-largest economy and do not charge hedge-fund fees that are typically higher.
The Columbia, Harvard and Princeton university endowments, and the Ford Foundation are among those that now have their own quotas to invest in yuan-denominated stocks traded on China's exchanges.
Yu was a managing director of public equities at CIC, running its direct stock investments, said the sources. That department also allocates money to outside long-only stock funds, they added.
CIC, which was set up to help boost returns on the mainland's foreign-currency reserves, oversaw about US$650 billion of assets at the end of last year, Sina Corp reported on its website in February, citing the fund chairman Ding Xuedong. The market value of its overseas investments exceeded US$200 billion, the report said.
Yu joined CIC in January 2009, according to the LinkedIn profile confirmed by the sources. He was head of global equities at Guangzhou-based Guangfa Fund Management and a managing director at long-only fund manager Eagle Capital Management in New York before CIC. He also worked for consulting firm McKinsey.
