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Clifford Lau, CFA

Portfolio Manager

Clifford Lau is a hard- and local-currency portfolio manager on William Blair’s emerging markets debt team. Before joining William Blair, Clifford was the head of fixed income, Asia-Pacific, and a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, based in Singapore. In that role he was responsible for managing Asian fixed-income assets, developing new products, and promoting the company’s expertise across the region. Before that, Clifford was head of the Singapore office for Pramerica Fixed Income, the asset-management division of Prudential Financial Inc. In that role he managed approximately $1 billion of Asian fixed-income assets. He is recognized as one of the leading managers of Asian fixed income in the region, and Asian institutional magazine The Asset has named him among the “most astute Asian bond investors” every year since 2004. Clifford holds an Investment Representative License with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is a CFA Charterholder. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Hong Kong.

4 Reasons to Look at Asia

Clifford Lau, CFA
Emerging Markets Debt

Supply-chain disruptions are causing some turmoil in the minds of Asian investors. But while COVID-19 restrictions in China highlighted the problems with supply-chain concentration and drove many businesses to diversify to other Asian countries, we...

China: Reopening Should Drive Growth

Clifford Lau, CFA
Emerging Markets Debt, Global Equity

After a year of anemic growth—by China’s standards—we expect a recovery in Chinese economic activity to gradually take place in 2023. The government has abandoned its zero-COVID policy and re-pivoted to growth, and the reopening,...

China 2022: A Year of Opportunity

Clifford Lau, CFA
Global Equity

China is accelerating efforts to achieve Common Prosperity and implementing other policy initiatives aimed at sustainable growth. What will this reshuffling of policy priorities mean for investors in 2022 across China’s equity and bond markets?...

China: Opportunities at an Inflection Point

Clifford Lau, CFA
Emerging Markets Debt, Global Equity

China is accelerating efforts to achieve Common Prosperity and implementing other policy initiatives aimed at sustainable growth. What will this reshuffling of policy priorities mean for investors in 2022 across China’s equity and bond markets?...

China’s Unwavering Growth Journey

Clifford Lau, CFA
Emerging Markets Debt, Global Equity

China led the world into the COVID-19 pandemic and was the first country to emerge. As we look ahead to the remainder of 2021, what does the modern Middle Kingdom have in store? We asked...

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