The group leverages fundamental insights from internal subject matter experts who identify mispriced securities across targeted domains of the equity market, which are used to create a market-neutral portfolio of high-conviction investments.
Our Team
Agus Tandiono
Senior Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific & Active Equities Asia
As a member of Senior Management Team and Head of Asia Pacific, Agus leads the regional business development and growth of CPP Investments across Hong Kong, Mumbai and Sydney offices. He is a member of CPP Investments’ Portfolio Execution Committee and Investment Strategy and Risk Committee.
In his dual role as Head of Active Equities Asia, he leads a team of investment professionals that performs fundamental research on public equities, or soon-to-be public equities, and invests in quality companies throughout Asia.
Agus has more than 25 years of investment experience in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining CPP Investments in January 2014, he spent a total of five years at Citadel (Asia) as Head of Asia Equity managing the Asia Equities Long Short portfolio, three years at Income Partners as Managing Partner and ten years at Fidelity Investments (HK) managing various sectors and country funds.
He holds an MBA from Booth Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, and a BBA from University of San Diego. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Agus currently serves on the board of directors of Hong Kong Broadband Network (“HKBN”), a Hong Kong listed telecommunication company.
Alina Chiew
Managing Director, Active Equities Asia
Alina leads the Active Equities Asia group investing in publicly listed companies, IPOs and pre-IPOs, as well as research and investment in China A and H shares, with specific focus on the wealth management, renewables, healthcare and wellness domains.
Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2017, Alina was Managing Director responsible for managing Greater China equity strategies in Goldman Sachs Asset Management; and was Chief Representative in the Shanghai Representative Office. Before that, she headed the research department at CITIC Frontier China Research in Shanghai, and also worked as an equity research analyst at Crosby, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. She started her career as a bank regulator with Bank Negara Malaysia.
Alina holds a BA (Hons) in Accounting from the University of Malaya. She is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant.
Guanglei Li
Managing Director, Active Equities Asia
Guanglei focuses on public investment opportunities in the China Consumers, electrification, automobility, energy transition and industrials domains.
Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2021, Guanglei spent 7 years at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority where he was a portfolio manager for the China fund. Before that, he was a vice president at Tairen capital, a Greater China focused long/short equity hedge fund. Guanglei was also an associate at Neuberger Berman Greater China long/short equity hedge fund. He started his career as a finance manager at Procter & Gamble China Ltd and Best Buy before he joined asset management industry.
Guanglei holds a BA in Business and Finance from Coventry University in the UK and an MBA degree from London Business School in the UK.
Michael Tao
Managing Director, Active Equities Asia
Michael invests in the Asia technology space covering the following domains: regional internet, semiconductor and hardware, and software and cloud services. Prior to his current role he spent three years with the External Portfolio Management team helping build out the Asia program. Michael joined CPPIB after graduating from university.
He holds a Master of Accounting and Bachelor of Mathematics – The University of Waterloo.
Anuj Girotra
Managing Director, Active Equities Asia
Anuj is the India lead for Active Equities focusing on public equities, PIPE deals and pre-IPO opportunities in Consumer, Healthcare, Financials and Technology domains.
Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2020, Anuj spent 12 years at Capital Group as a Global Partner and Head of the Private Markets business for India. Anuj has also spent nine years as co-head of Asia Special Situations Group with ABN Amro Bank.
Anuj is a President’s Scholar in Bachelor’s in Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology, University of Delhi and an MBA in Finance from XLRI Business School.
Board Member of Renew Power Private Limited in India.