Nikko Asset Appoints Blair Pickerell as Asia Head
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Nikko Asset Management Co. appointed Blair Pickerell as head of Asia and will establish a representative office in Hong Kong, the Japanese manager of more than $106 billion said in an e-mailed statement today.
Pickerell, who will be based in Hong Kong, will also double as the Tokyo-based firm’s global chief marketing officer, the statement said. Pickerell left Morgan Stanley Investment Management in June where he was Asia head, the U.S. investment bank’s Hong Kong-based spokesman Nick Footitt said then.