Meet the team
Rupert Walker
Regional editor, Asia
T: +852 3695 5159
E: rupert.walker@markallengroup.com
Rupert is an award-winning financial journalist and editor with a background as a fund manager and investment banker in London and Singapore. He was educated at Oxford and London universities, and is a CFA charter holder.
Thomas Blott
Regional editor, Asia
T: +852 3695 5167
E: thomas.blott@markallengroup.com
Thomas is a financial journalist with over 10 years’ experience including nine in Asia. He began his career at Euromoney Institutional Investor, completing the graduate scheme and going on to establish the Asia bureau for IJGlobal, the world’s foremost source of intelligence on the project finance market. After a stint at KPMG, he joined International Financing Review, which was originally owned by Thomson Reuters and later Refinitiv, where he managed the people & markets section in Asia. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
Abraham Darwyne
Senior reporter, Asia
T: +852 3695 5163
E: abraham.darwyne@markallengroup.com
Abraham is a Senior Reporter with Fund Selector Asia. Previously he wrote about global markets and investment funds as a Senior reporter at FE fundinfo in London. He started his career as a reporter covering companies listed on the UK’s AIM market for Vox Markets. He holds a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Our content
Fund Selector Asia reports on a wide range of issues related to fund selection and portfolio construction including fund comparisons, strategy launches, distribution trends, regulatory changes and economic issues. Our goal is to serve the needs of financial professionals who are ultimately involved in building portfolios for investors.
Fund Selector Asia is the go-to source of industry news and analysis for a high value wholesale distributor audience, regular features include:
Daily news
The website includes daily news and analysis, focussing on fund lunches, industry trends, fund flows, people and business moves, product news, and regulator changes.
Distributor Interviews
A regular weekly feature outlining the views of a key distributor on a specific topic. Published in video or text format it will provide our readers with valuable peer insight into latest market trends.
Head-to-Head
An audience favourite weekly fund performance-related feature. An analyst based in Asia, who could be from a private bank, wealth management firm or research house, compares the investment strategy, performance and other data of two funds registered for sale in Asia.
Asset class in focus
ACIF provides a forum for fund managers or heads of research to analyse a particular asset class without promoting a specific fund. ACIF articles are typically interviews with articulate experts who provide data to back up their argument.
Top Trumps
Top Trumps can be referred to as a Head-to-Head lite. Based on the UK card game, in which players have themed cards and compare the data to determine a winning hand, Top Trumps for FSA does the same with funds.
FSA Spy
A weekly column best described as loose conversation between friends in a bar. The FSA Spy writes his opinions and sometimes rumours (though he qualifies them as such) about the asset and wealth management community, as well as often unpublished people moves and anonymous tips from the financial community.
