Asian institutions embracing emerging market bonds

Patrick Chia, Singapore-based associate director of fixed income, managing Credit Agricole Asset Management's fixed-income assets in Asia, including portfolios of Asian bonds, balanced funds, global bonds and local money market funds. He also works with CAAM's London desk to manage an absolute return fixed-income fund. FA: What's the firm's fixed-income investment philosophy? Chia: In the long term you can't predict market direction, so the optimal way to manage the fund is in portf…