Pickerell pinpoints reasons western fund houses struggle in Asia

In his own words, Blair Pickerell presented on “a live grenade of a topic” at this year's Fund Forum Asia conference in Hong Kong: Whether the western asset management model works in Asia. In the end, Pickerell, Nikko Asset Management's head of Asia and global head of marketing in Hong Kong, concluded that it does, as long as it's implemented in the right way. Even for an American who’s been in the region for 30-odd years, who knows the Asian funds industry inside-out and who sp…