Eastspring Investments has promoted Pierre-Julien Jandrain to chief risk officer, the Singapore-based asset manager said in a statement on 8 October 2026. He took up the role the following week.
Jandrain leads the firm's combined risk, compliance and legal function and joins the executive management committee, reporting to chief executive Rajeev Mittal. He is based in Singapore.
The appointment is an internal promotion and the third step in a progression at the firm. Jandrain joined Eastspring in 2022 as head of portfolio risk and was appointed head of investment risk and performance last year. He brings more than twenty years in investment risk, portfolio construction and performance management, with earlier roles at PIMCO, Invesco and Amundi.
He succeeds Terence Lim, who had held the chief risk officer role since 2022 and who joined from abrdn, where he was chief risk officer for Asia-Pacific. Eastspring has not said where Lim goes next.
Eastspring is the Asian asset management business of Prudential plc and manages money across a spread of regional markets from its Singapore base. The chief risk officer role at a manager of that shape carries a wider brief than investment risk alone, since the combined function also covers compliance and legal across multiple regulatory regimes, each with its own reporting expectations.
That breadth is the notable feature of this appointment. Jandrain's background is squarely in investment and portfolio risk, the quantitative side of the discipline, rather than in compliance or legal. Firms generally choose between two profiles when they fill a combined role of this kind: a compliance or legal specialist who must learn the investment book, or an investment risk specialist who must take on the regulatory side. Eastspring has chosen the second, and it has chosen someone who already knows the portfolios, having run the firm's investment risk and performance function for the past year.
The move also continues a pattern of internal succession at the firm. Promoting from within at the executive committee level signals continuity in how risk is measured and escalated, which matters more than it might appear: a new chief risk officer arriving from outside typically spends the first year rebuilding the risk framework to a familiar shape, while an internal appointment inherits a framework he helped build.
Neither Eastspring nor Prudential published a quotation from Mittal in the material accompanying the announcement, and the firm has not set out any change of direction for the function alongside the appointment.
