BNY Mellon Investment Management appoints a former The Economist financial journalist to become its investment strategist for Asia-Pacific.

BNY Mellon Investment Management has named a veteran financial journalist as its investment strategist for Asia-Pacific.

Simon Cox joins the investment management firm after more than a decade as a journalist for The Economist magazine, based in London, Delhi and Hong Kong. While with The Economist, he reported from over 20 countries and covered the IMF and World Bank from London, before moving to Delhi to write about South Asia and the Gulf. He has spent the past four years in Hong Kong concentrating on China's economy. 

He is noted for helping invent the "Keqiang Index," an alternative gauge of China's growth based on indicators relied upon by Premier Li Keqiang when he was party secretary of Liaoning Province, and the "Sinodependency Index," a stock market index based on US multinationals' exposure to China's economy.

At BNY Mellon, Cox joins as part of the global investment strategy team and will provide in-depth analysis to clients and portfolio managers on the region's economies. He reports to Jack Malvey, chief global market strategist for investment management in New York. 

BNY Mellon has around $1.6 trillion in assets under management as at 31 December 2013.