John McCareins, CAIA, CIMA, leads Northern Trust Asset Management's business across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. He is responsible for strategic growth initiatives and oversees investment strategy, relationship management and sales teams based in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Australia, as well as global equity portfolio management and trading from Hong Kong. John serves on multiple Northern Trust subsidiary boards and governance committees including The Northern Trust Company of Hong Kong, Northern Trust Global Investments Japan and the APAC Business Risk Committee.

John previously was the head of the outsourced chief investment officer practice focused on retirement assets within Northern Trust's multi-manager solutions group. He led a team that oversaw multi-asset programs with more than $60 billion in assets for asset owners globally. John's previous experience also includes client relationship management with Northern Trust and mutual fund sub-advisory product development with T. Rowe Price.

John has an MBA from Dartmouth College and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Northwestern University. John is a CAIA® charterholder and has attained the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation. He is also an Accredited Asset Management Specialist designee and a Certified Treasury Professional designee.