Clifford Chi-wai Lau, CFA

Clifford Chi-wai Lau is a hard- and local-currency portfolio manager on the emerging markets debt team at William Blair Investment Management. Before joining William Blair in 2020, Clifford was the head of fixed income, Asia-Pacific, and a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, based in Singapore. In that role he was responsible for managing Asian fixed-income assets, developing new products, and promoting the company’s expertise across the region. Before that, Clifford was head of the Singapore office for Pramerica Fixed Income, the asset-management division of Prudential Financial Inc. In that role, he managed approximately $1 billion of Asian fixed-income assets. He is recognized as one of the leading managers of Asian fixed income in the region, and Asian institutional magazine, The Asset, has named him among the “most astute Asian bond investors” every year since 2004. Clifford holds an investment representative license with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is a CFA charterholder. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Hong Kong.