CIO Series 16: China’s Potential Recovery and Its Spillover into Asia

What happens if China reignites as the world’s growth engine? The rest of Asia could be the primary beneficiary, due to its close economic ties with China. Since 2020, ASEAN has become China’s largest trading partner, surpassing both the EU and the US. We believe there are undervalued investment opportunities in both China and Asia for a potential China recovery. For this CIO Series, we’ve invited Dan Kiang, founder and CIO of the Aqua Lake Fund, to share his institutional views of China and his best investment ideas for the region.

About Aqua Lake Aqua Lake is a Hong Kong-based hedge fund, running a fundamental long-short strategy focused on Asia. The fund takes a research-driven, high conviction approach to pick stocks, targeting 15-20% annualized return. The fund is founded by Dan Kiang and Ken Ngo, each with over 20 years of experience working for large institutional investors and investing in Asia.

About Dan Kiang Prior to founding Aqua Lake, Dan Kiang was Senior Managing Director and Head of Asia Public Equity for Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan (OTPP), a leading Canadian pension fund with $248 billion of assets under management. Dan personally managed over $1.5 billion of assets for OTTP in Asia, and was a member of the Global Investment Committee responsible for $12 billion of the firm’s money. Prior to OTTP, Dan worked in senior roles for several prestigious institutional investors, including Mount Kellett (a $7 billion hedge fund), Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Asian Special Situations Group) and TVG Capital Partners (later JP Morgan Direct Investment Group), all based in Hong Kong.