Carl Meerveld, president at Morningstar Asia in Hong Kong, recently spoke with FinanceAsia about his firm's ambitions, particularly in China, in addition to musing on his long history of helping build the region's mutual funds industry.
FinanceAsia Who is Morningstar Asia
Carl Meerveld Morningstar is the largest fund analysis company in the world. I would estimate it's twice the size of our two competitors, Lipper and Standard Poor's Fund Services, combined, in terms of staff and volume. We established our Hong Kong office in mid-2000 as a joint venture with Softbank and PCCW. We're also in Japan, Korea and Australia. From Hong Kong we cover all of the rest of Asia, including...