Success in the asset management industry is not gender specific, says UBS official
Women must put their hands up to be counted in the fiercely competitive and male-dominated industry, feels Charlene Huang
Having led a team that helps oversee multibillion dollar assets in the world’s most dynamic markets, Charlene Huang, co-head Asia-Pacific of Global Multi-Managers (GMM), the global real estate arm of UBS Asset Management, believes that her success in a male-dominated industry has been a natural progression with the help of her family and colleagues.
An expectant mother of six months, Huang, in an elegant black dress, arrived at UBS’s office on the 52nd floor of the International Financial Centre in the morning for a meeting, before setting off couple of hours later to the airport for a flight back to Singapore, where she is currently based.
Educated in Australia, Huang got a job in London focusing on performance analysis in a top real estate intelligence service, before joining UBS Wealth Management in 2007.
In 2014, she was promoted to her current post, where she is responsible for investment selection and growing the GMM clients, among others, for UBS Asset Management’s Asia-Pacific real estate business, three years after serving as an assistant portfolio manager.
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, the multibillion dollar asset manager shared with us her investment tips, the beauty of managing real estate assets, as well as tips for aspiring future female leaders in her industry.
As a real estate asset manager, which countries do you favour for investment?