An experienced industry veteran will serve as executive director and CEO of Allspring’s local entity in Singapore.

Allspring Global Investments (Allspring), an independent asset manager (formerly known as Wells Fargo Asset Management) with more than $476 billion in assets under management, appointed Tan Song Chao (Gary Tan), CFA, as a portfolio manager on the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team. He will also serve as executive director and CEO of Allspring’s local entity in Singapore.

Gary Tan joins Allspring with over 18 years of experience working for global asset managers. As part of the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team, he will join Portfolio Managers Derrick Irwin, Richard Peck and Prashant Paroda and will report to Jerry Zhang, senior portfolio manager and head of the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team.

Key Market Singapore

In his role as executive director and CEO of the local entity, Allspring Global Investments (Singapore), Gary Tan will supervise day-to-day operations and work to build the company’s presence in this key market.

Before joining Allspring, he was lead portfolio manager for Asia equity strategies at Natixis Investment Managers. Before that role, he was a research coordinator and lead analyst for Greater China, North Asia and Australia and a global emerging markets environmental, social and governance coordinator with Natixis.