A $172bn pension manager puts Asia at heart of GEM equity strategy

Asia is one of the most geographically important regions in British Columbia Investment Management Corporation’s, also known as BCI, global emerging markets (GEM) portfolio, a senior executive said. “Asian countries combined currently account for approximately 73% of the global emerging markets active internal equity portfolio,” said Caglar Somek, director, global emerging markets – public markets at BCI. “We expect Asia to be one of the leaders of economic growth in emerging ma…