CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Aje Saigal
Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Nuvest Capital
Aje is the founding partner of Nuvest Capital, which launched the Nuvest Fund in July 2012 with seed investment from the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). The Nuvest Fund strategy focuses on global asset allocation with an emerging market bias to achieve superior capital growth with moderate risk.
Aje built his investment career of over 30 years in the GIC, having joined the organisation from inception in 1981. His first 20 years were focused on the equities asset class. He was CIO, Global Equities from 1990 to 2003. From 2003 to 2012, as Director of Investment Policy and Strategy, Aje was responsible for shaping and implementing GIC's global asset allocation strategies. During this period, GIC took significant steps to diversify its portfolio, including higher allocations to Emerging Markets, Commodities and Alternatives. Aje was also on the GIC Group Executive Committee.
Aje currently serves as independent director of the US-based Emerging Markets Growth Fund and the Singapore-based Centre for Asset Management Research and Investment at the National University of Singapore. He is also adviser to the CFA Society, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial
Economics (Singapore Management University) and The Salvation Army in Singapore. He chairs the Investment Committee of the Singapore Indian Development Association and is a Trustee of the Ministry of Home Affairs Uniformed Services Superannuation Fund. He is a Non-Executive Director of Unigestion Asia Pte Ltd.
Aje has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Tasmania and Master of Science (Management) from Stanford University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) by the Singapore Government in 2000.
