Douglas Appell

Senior Reporter (Money management/Asia)

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dappell@pionline.com

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Doug joined P&I as a reporter in the Boston office in 2003, covering money managers and mutual funds. He was equities editor for Dow Jones & Co. in Tokyo. He also worked for Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal, where he wrote a weekly "Heard on the Street" column from Kuala Lumpur. Doug has a bachelor's degree in economics from Cornell University and a master's in international relations from John Hopkins University. Doug also spent a year at Tokyo University, where he studied Japanese politics on a Fulbright scholarship. He is fluent in Japanese.

Recent Stories by Douglas Appell

• BlackRock study: Asian institutional investors to boost active quant allocations

• Accounting changes are pushing Japanese companies to DC plans

• Striving to create that perfect defined contribution plan

• Decumulation moves to forefront

• NZ Superannuation sells Barrick Gold stock, on human rights, environmental concerns

• PIMCO adds Japanese interest rate portfolio manager in Tokyo

• Panasonic to shift retirement benefits program to DC from DB

• Gottex, Astmax to offer absolute-return strategies to Japanese institutional investors

• Northern Trust taps its India CEO to run Hong Kong, regional services

• PIMCO chooses PM in Singapore for Asia credit, emerging markets corporate debt

• Vanguard to launch its first ETF in Asia ex-Australia

• ING seeing endgame in its plan to unload all Asian subsidiaries

• NZ Superannuation reports gain for March, sale of timber

• BlackRock hires first head of global capital markets for Asia-Pacific

• Eastspring Investments announces distribution push in Europe, U.K.

• Malaysian fund moves 11% of assets to external managers

• Shell Australia Superannuation Fund joins outsourcing trend

• KKR appoints new CEO for Japan business

• Japanese equity team joins BNY Mellon from ING

• NEPC forges Asia-focused research tie-up with Singapore-based GFIA

• Malaysia’s EPF: External managers oversee 58 billion ringgit of fund assets

• China's social security fund ends 2012 up 27.5% at 1.1 trillion yuan

• Z-Ben: Chinese insurers poised to become significant global investors

• Firms bulking up sales staff to win won in S. Korea

• External managers oversee 16.7% of Bank of Korea’s reserves, up from 15.8% a year ago

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