Scouring the region for growth, sector leaders

THE asset management world is dominated by men so it was refreshing to come across Joanna Kwok who not only runs the Asia Growth Fund at JP Morgan Asset Management, but is also ranked among the top performers.

According to a Citywire ranking report in 2017, Hong Kong-based Ms Kwok is among the top 10 performing female fund managers. Of the 15,316 fund managers tracked by Citywire, only one in 10 fund managers is a woman. It also found that the average fund run by women stands at £306 million (S$546.7 million), less than two thirds of the £496 million average size for male managers.

Asia is bett…