Enduring assets. Thoughtfully stewarded.
Ginkgo Asset Management operates across two integrated capabilities — active asset management, and structured investment vehicles across Asia.
WHAT WE DO
What We Do
Ginkgo Asset Management operates across two integrated capabilities: active asset management — acquisition, divestment, leasing, repositioning — and structured investment vehicles across Asia.
Active Asset Management
Structured Investment Vehicles
Acquisition · Leasing ·
Asset Enhancement ·
Capital Recycling
We manage assets throughout the investment lifecycle, including acquisition, leasing, capital expenditure and portfolio optimisation.
OPERATOR
We leverage proprietary deal flow to create investment platforms around differentiated assets, partnering with long-term capital to deliver enduring value.
INVESTOR
Ginkgo Asset Management is an owner, operator, and investment manager of real estate assets across the commercial, hospitality, and industrial sectors, generating superior risk-adjusted returns through disciplined investment strategies and hands-on asset management.
CREDIBILITY
Fast Facts
Years of experience
Combined principals’ experience
Total transactions (USD)
Combined Principals’ transaction experience across Asia-Pacific
Asset classes
Commercial · Hospitality · Industrial
Markets
Japan · Indonesia · Singapore · Malaysia · Thailand · China
PLATFORM
What We Do
We combine the agility of an entrepreneurial investor with the discipline of an institutional manager. Our team originates proprietary opportunities, structures capital partnerships, and executes asset business plans across the entire investment lifecycle, from acquisition and leasing to repositioning, divestment, and ongoing reporting. By keeping these capabilities in-house, we maintain alignment, accountability, and a relentless focus on value creation.
Origination
Our deeply rooted presence across Asia and long-standing relationships with owners, operators, brokers, and local partners provide differentiated access to investment opportunities, with a strong emphasis on off-market and negotiated transactions.
Acquisition
We move decisively when conviction is high, supported by rigorous commercial, technical, legal, and ESG diligence conducted both in-house and alongside trusted local advisers.
Asset Transformation
Hands-on asset management is at the core of our approach, enabling us to execute leasing strategies, capital works, repositioning programmes, and operational improvements that drive value creation throughout the investment lifecycle.
Capital Partnership Solutions
Structured investment vehicles across Asia, with financing and liquidity planning aligned to each asset’s business plan.
Divestment & Reporting
Disciplined exit, institutional-grade reporting, transparent valuation policy and clear escalation to our investment committee.
PORTFOLIO
Select Portfolio
Commercial, hospitality and industrial assets we own, manage and improve across Asia.
Hatchobori Office
Hatchobori Office building in Tokyo, Japan (Successful Exit)
COMMERCIAL
Jingumae 123
Prime mixed-use office and retail asset in Jingumae/Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
COMMERCIAL
Garner Osaka
Portfolio of three branded Garner hotels 518 rooms located in Osaka, Japan (successful exit)
HOSPITALITY
COMPETITVE ADVANTAGE
A deeply rooted presence in Asia, built over generations. 65 years of principals’ market experience.
A member of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), a fourth-generation family business headquartered in Singapore. Long-term growth prioritised over short-term gains.
Acquisition, divestment, leasing and repositioning executed in-house. Track record across commercial, hospitality and industrial assets.
Strategies adapted to market cycles and regional shifts, with strategic focus held.
Headquartered in Singapore, capital partners across Asia
About Us
Mission & Philosophy
The foundation of Ginkgo Asset Management’s identity focuses on longevity, resilience, and a deeply rooted presence in Asia
We don’t just buy assets. We make them better. Ginkgo operates across two integrated capabilities: active asset management — acquisition, divestment, leasing, repositioning — and structured investment vehicles across Asia. We are operators, not allocators: we take direct responsibility for the performance of the assets we own and manage.
We have cultivated enduring relationships across Asia’s diverse markets. As a family-owned business, we prioritise long-term growth and intergenerational stewardship over short-term gains.
We focus on commercial, hospitality and industrial assets, enhancing value through strategic investment and hands-on management. Our approach is adaptive, enabling us to navigate market cycles and shifts while maintaining strategic focus.
Rooted. Adaptive. Enduring.
Why Ginkgo
We chose the Ginkgo name because it reflects our investment philosophy. The ginkgo tree has survived for over 270 million years, adapting to changing environments while remaining true to its core character. Similarly, we seek assets with enduring relevance, and we actively manage them to thrive through changing market cycles.
Like the generations who planted ginkgo trees knowing they would never personally benefit from their shade, we take a longer-term view, balancing present performance with sustainable value creation for the future.
Ginkgo Asset Management is a member of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee).
Ginkgo Asset Management is a member of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), a fourth-generation family business headquartered in Singapore. Founded in the late 1800s, TPC has evolved with the needs of each era – from shipping and maritime industry to industrial operations, investment, and well-being – building businesses across Asia for more than 120 years. its commitment is stated simply: to serve the well-being of life and create wealth at the same time.
Ginkgo carries this ethos into real assets – patient capital, hands-on stewardship, and value measured across generations.
Strategy
Why Asia — market thesis
Asian Family Roots with Institutional Grade Expertise
Like the Ginkgo tree itself, our roots run deep. Across Asia’s diverse markets, we have cultivated enduring relationships, local knowledge, and institutional credibility that allow us to navigate complexity with confidence and clarity.
Many of the region’s most attractive real estate opportunities never enter broadly marketed channels. They emerge through trust, reputation, and decades-long relationships with owners, operators, and local stakeholders.
In markets dominated by domestic players, foreign investors often struggle
to gain meaningful access despite an abundance of capital.
Ginkgo was built to bridge this gap. Our presence on the ground, combined with an established history of transacting and managing assets locally, enables us to unlock opportunities that others cannot easily access.
By connecting global capital with deeply local networks, we create pathways to differentiated investments and sustainable long-term value.
People
Board & Advisory Committee
Loh Niap Juan (Niap) is Group Chief Corporate Officer of Tsao Pao Chee (TPC), where he leads corporate, business, investment and organisational strategy, supporting the Group’s evolution towards the well-being economy.
Since joining TPC in 2019, he has played a key role in its transformation, governance and organisational development.
Niap brings over 25 years of finance and investment experience across family businesses, multinational and government-linked companies.
He is also Chairman of OCTAVE Capital and a qualified Chartered Accountant.
James Ong is Chief Executive Officer of Ginkgo Asset Management, where he leads the firm’s investment strategy, platform development, and growth across Asia. He brings more than 24 years of experience spanning real estate, private equity, principal investments, investment banking, and corporate strategy. Over his career, James has led and executed transactions exceeding US$2 billion across real estate, logistics, infrastructure, healthcare, and consumer sectors.
Prior to Ginkgo, he served as Chief Strategy Officer of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), overseeing mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, and real estate asset management. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, and is a Certified Practising Accountant with CPA Australia.
Investment and Asset Management
Our team combines institutional real estate investment experience with a deeply rooted presence in Asian markets.
James Ong is Chief Executive Officer of Ginkgo Asset Management, where he leads the firm’s investment strategy, platform development, and growth across Asia. He brings more than 24 years of experience spanning real estate, private equity, principal investments, investment banking, and corporate strategy. Over his career, James has led and executed transactions exceeding US$2 billion across real estate, logistics, infrastructure, healthcare, and consumer sectors.
Prior to Ginkgo, he served as Chief Strategy Officer of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), overseeing mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, and real estate asset management. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, and is a Certified Practising Accountant with CPA Australia.
JN Cheong is an experienced real estate investment professional with expertise in acquisitions, asset management, capital partnerships, and strategic investments across Asia Pacific. She has been involved in transactions spanning the commercial, hospitality, industrial, and alternative real estate sectors.
At Ginkgo, JN focuses on originating and executing investment opportunities, working closely with capital partners and operating teams to create long-term value. She brings a combination of institutional investment discipline and entrepreneurial thinking, with experience across both direct asset investments and platform-level opportunities.
Outside of work, JN enjoys travelling, reading, and exploring different cities. She has a keen interest in how people interact with the built environment and is always curious to understand what makes certain places and businesses endure over time.
Ee Ting Liow has spent more than 20 years working across industrial, logistics, residential and commercial real estate, with experience spanning investment, fund management, asset management and corporate real estate. His career has taken him across both the private and public sectors, including regional investment and asset management roles with leading real estate organisations, portfolio management for a major global logistics company’s Asia-Pacific corporate real estate platform, and asset management roles within government agencies. He has executed and supported more than US$2 billion of transactions globally across acquisitions, divestments and joint venture investments.
At Ginkgo, Ee Ting supports new investments and focuses on asset management across the portfolio. Working closely with the Ginkgo team, operating partners and other stakeholders, he helps translate investment strategies into asset-level business plans, with a focus on leasing, operational performance, asset enhancement, repositioning and capital allocation. His role centres on active asset management and disciplined execution to improve asset performance and create long-term value for investors.
Trust
Responsible Investing
At Ginkgo, we view responsible investing as an expression of good stewardship. Environmental, social, and governance considerations are embedded into the way we source, underwrite, manage, and ultimately exit investments. Rather than treating ESG as a compliance exercise, we view it as a framework for protecting and enhancing long-term value.
Because we actively manage our assets, we have the ability to influence outcomes directly. Whether through refurbishment and repositioning initiatives, improvements in operational efficiency, responsible tenant selection, or stronger governance practices, we seek to create assets that serve the needs of investors, occupiers, communities, and future generations alike. We believe that long-term value creation and responsible stewardship are mutually reinforcing objectives.
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LOCATION
Singapore (Headquarters)
3 Anson Road, Springleaf Tower, #06-01
Singapore 079909
E contact@ginkgo-reim.com
T +65 6336 2233
For investment enquiries, partnership discussions or media requests.