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Asia’s best managed companies: Euromoney

Euromoney, January 2010

Asia’s best managed companies have come out of the financial crisis in better shape than their peers, and that’s no surprise: in most cases they went into it in better shape too. Prudent gearing, transparency, good governance and clear strategy have characterised these leaders, rewarded in this month’s Euromoney Asia’s Best Managed Companies poll, for years.

That’s not to say things have been easy for any of them. Take CapitaLand, for example. For many years the favourite Singapore blue chip among Asia portfolio managers, this time last year its whole approach to business was being questioned. “As global liquidity tightened and real estate transaction volumes dried up, analysts were raising concerns that our business model – which focuses on capital recycling and capital productivity – was broken,” recalls Olivier Lim, group chief financial officer at CapitaLand.

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