Me & My Money: Finance exec shuts out market noise, avoids tracking returns too often

Mr Thomas Poullaouec heads multi-asset solutions for Asia-Pacific at global investment manager T. Rowe Price. ST PHOTO: RYAN CHIONG
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SINGAPORE – It can be tough to shut out the noise surrounding financial markets, but finance executive Thomas Poullaouec has hit on the strategy of ignoring the daily, monthly and even annual returns of his portfolio.

His unorthodox approach stemmed from an encounter during the 2007-2008 global financial crisis.

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