Paula Chan, CMT is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager with the Fixed Income team at Manulife Investment Management. Based in Hong Kong, she is responsible for the firm’s on- and off-balance-sheet Hong Kong dollar and Renminbi bond portfolios. Paula also oversees fixed income investments in Taiwan and liaises with the Firm’s onshore China joint ventures, Manulife TEDA and Manulife Sinochem to ensure comprehensive coverage of the Greater China bond market.
Paula has over 20 years of fixed income experience. Prior to joining Manulife Investment Management, she was a money market and proprietary trader with Barclays Capital and Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, with a focus on interest rate and forex trading specializing in Hong Kong dollar and G7 currencies.
Paula has been named among the “Most Astute Investors in Local Currency Bonds” in The Asset’s Benchmark research survey for nine consecutive years, from 2009 to 2017. She was also a key contributor to setting up the firm’s China QFII RMB Bond Fund and a pioneer in managing institutional offshore RMB bond mandates.
Paula holds a Master of Business in banking and finance from Monash University in Australia and holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.