Blair Pickerell retires, takes non-exec role at Principal

Blair Pickerell, one of the architects of the Asian funds market as we know it, is to retire at the end of this month after a 30 year career spent working across the Asia region. The former Jardine Fleming, HSBC and Morgan Stanley IM CEO, now chairman of Nikko Asset Management in Hong Kong, will take up an independent directorship with a major US fund house, but expects to work at less than 50% of his current capacity. “I have concluded that I have reached the stage when I shoul…