Intech, a unit of Denver, Colorado-based Janus Group, is expanding in the region on several fronts, including a mutual fund version of its product for the Taiwan market and preparing to launch a global version of the mathematical investment strategy it has pursued in US large-cap stocks.
Jennifer Young, executive vice president in the firm's Palm Beach, Florida headquarters, says Asian institutional investors have been quicker to adopt Intech's strategy than counterparts in the United States, where bull markets in the 1980s and 1990s dampened demand for a highly risk-controlled approach to investing.
Intech has only been marketing outside the United States since 2003 but has already...
