Soo-Hai Lim joined Baring Asset Management in 2005 and manages its Asean Frontiers Fund, a $370 million Dublin-registered fund that is regulated by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. Lim also directs research in the Australasia and Asean markets, and is a key member of the portfolio construction team for all Asian regional mandates. Lim is Singaporean and was previously the country specialist for Australia and Malaysia for five years at Daiwa SB Investments. His frontiers fund started life with a wider Pacific mandate, but in 2008 the focus changed.