Antony Dirga
of Trimegah Asset Management
Antony Dirga is CEO of Trimegah Asset Management which is the country’s 14th largest fund house, with around USD1.2 billion in AUM at the end of 2020. Hubbis was fortunate to ‘meet’ with Dirga in late 2020 to assess the year that was and to offer his views on the year ahead. He explained that Trimegah Asset Management, now three decades old, had carved out a specialisation in both conventional products and conventional Sharia-compliant funds, and has in recent years been launching some tailored, more unique and specialised products that are successfully tapping into investor trends and gaps in the market, with strong traction from an in-house created absolute return fund that rose an impressive 22.87% in 2020, and a fascinating fund that offers both a yield and life insurance for investors. He reported that Trimegah would focus on creativity and agility and would roll out some new products in 2021, including shifting more towards passive strategies, including a new ETF. And all this is set against a backdrop of a nation whose demographics and economy are both remarkably dynamic, held back only by the vicissitudes of the pandemic, but hopefully only temporarily.