Canada $247 Billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Appoints Bruce Crane as Head of APAC, Succeeds Ben Chan Who Retired in June 2023
29th June 2023 | Hong Kong
Canada Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan with $247 billion AUM (Assets under Management) has appointed Bruce Crane as Head of Asia-Pacific (27/6/23), succeeding Ben Chan who had retired in June 2023 after 5 years at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and a 31-year career including 13 years at Malaysia $32 billion sovereign wealth fund (Khazanah Nasional). Bruce Crane had joined Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in Singapore in 2020 as Singapore office first employee with a mandate to open and staff an office during lockdown, grow across APAC and lead the Infrastructure & Natural Resources (INR) portfolio. Bruce Crane has around 30 years of experience in public & private markets, investment banking and advisory services including at OMERS Infrastructure, UBS & Morgan Stanley. Bruce Crane will report to Chief Investment Officer Ziad Hindo, and will lead investment activities and portfolio management in APAC across Ontario Teachers’ offices in Hong Kong, Mumbai and Singapore. Ontario Teachers’ currently has more than 85 employees in Asia-Pacific.
“ Canada $247 Billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Appoints Bruce Crane as Head of APAC, Succeeds Ben Chan Who Retired in June 2023 “
Canada Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Chief Investment Officer, Ziad Hindo: “As head of APAC, Bruce will play a leading role as we continue to progress our global growth strategy and deepen our investment activities across the region. He has done an outstanding job over the last three years building our INR portfolio and team in the region. His extensive global experience, exceptional knowledge of the APAC region and the strong relationships has cultivated both inside and outside the Plan make him a natural choice for this expanded role.”
Canada $247 Billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Appoints Bruce Crane as Head of APAC
Canada Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan appoints Bruce Crane as Head of Asia-Pacific (27/6/23). Bruce Crane had joined Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in Singapore in 2020, as first Singapore office employee, with a mandate to open and staff an office during lockdown, grow across APAC and lead the Infrastructure & Natural Resources (INR) portfolio. Bruce Crane has around 30 years of experience in public & private markets, investment banking and advisory services.
Bruce Crane will report to Chief Investment Officer Ziad Hindo, and will lead investment activities and portfolio management in APAC across Ontario Teachers’ offices in Hong Kong, Mumbai and Singapore.
Bruce Crane
Bruce Crane leads the investment activity and portfolio management in the Asia-Pacific region for Ontario Teachers’. Bruce joined Ontario Teachers’ in 2020 as one of the initial members of the Singapore office. He held the position of Senior Managing Director, responsible for overseeing and managing infrastructure and natural resources investments in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2023, Bruce was promoted to the role of Executive Managing Director and Head of Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Ontario Teachers’, Bruce spent nearly 10 years at OMERS Infrastructure where he most recently led their investing efforts in Asia. Previously, he was based in New York where he focused on North & South America transport and energy related investments. Prior to that, Bruce worked in Investment Banking at UBS (NYC) and Morgan Stanley (Houston) and earlier as a Field Engineer for Foster Wheeler (global). Bruce holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Columbia Business School.
About Ontario Teachers’
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’) is a global investor with net assets of $247.2 billion as at December 31, 2022. We invest in more than 50 countries in a broad array of assets including public and private equities, fixed income, credit, commodities, natural resources, infrastructure, real estate and venture growth to deliver retirement income for 336,000 working members and pensioners. With offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, Singapore and Toronto, our more than 400 investment professionals bring deep expertise in a broad range of sectors and industries. We are a fully funded defined benefit pension plan and have earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.5% since the plan’s founding in 1990. At Ontario Teachers’, we don’t just invest to make a return, we invest to shape a better future for the teachers we serve, the businesses we back, and the world we live in.
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