Batterymarch merges quant screens and fundamentals

Ray Prasad is a Boston-based senior portfolio manager at Batterymarch Financial Management. He heads a three-person Asian equities team that manages around $3.4 billion in assets, including $750 million in Asia-dedicated portfolios and half of the $5.2 billion in assets in an emerging markets fund. Prasad was in Hong Kong last week to accept BatterymarchÆs award for best five-year risk adjusted performance in the Asia ex-Japan equities category at AsianInvestorÆs 2008 Achievement Awar…