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Sean Jutahkiti
Sean Jutahkiti
Head of Asian Credit Research
Senior Vice President
Singapore

Biography

22 Years of Industry Experience
10 Years with Neuberger Berman
Sean Jutahkiti, CFA, Senior Vice President, joined the firm in 2013. Sean is Head of Asian Credit Research on the Emerging Markets Debt team based in Singapore. Sean joined the firm from ING Investment Management where he was a senior credit analyst. Prior to working at ING, Sean was a credit research analyst at PIMCO also based in Singapore, and before that he was a senior strategist at CreditSights Inc. based in Beijing and New York. Additionally he worked as a trading desk analyst at Merrill Lynch in Singapore, as an Asian credit research analyst at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, and as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division of CSFB based in New York. Sean is fluent in Mandarin and obtained a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master of Engineering in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. He has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

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March 23, 2023
China Property: On-the-Ground Perspective
Sean Jutahkiti
Sean Jutahkiti
Head of Asian Credit Research

China’s property sales are recovering at an uneven pace among projects in core and non-core areas.

I recently made my first trip to China in four years to survey property projects in the economically developed and vibrant Yangtze River Delta region, which includes Shanghai and a few smaller cities nearby. Overall, I encountered no COVID restrictions or lingering concerns and observed a clear recovery in transportation and retail. However, the property recovery has been uneven, with much better sales for high-end property in core areas, while recovery has been lackluster in non-core areas.

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