Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

World’s Largest Pension Investor Hires 4 Equity Managers

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has been steadily augmenting exposure to public equities.

Bird & Bird brings capital markets partner on board in HK

Bird & Bird has recruited equity capital markets partner Wing On Chui from King & Wood Mallesons in Hong Kong

Pimco’s Baker, Dada Said to Retire as Dhoraisingam Leaves

We are grateful for the contributions of those colleagues and wish them the very best in the future

Nikko AM makes raft of executive hires

Nikko AM head of institutional marketing and proposition Stefanie Drews said the company is “extremely pleased” to have made these appointments

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank Curtis S. Chin joins Advisory Board of Dolma Impact Fund

H.E. Curtis S. Chin, former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank and inaugural Asia Fellow of the Milken Institute, has joined the Advisory Board of Dolma Impact Fund the first international private equity fund purely focused on Nepal.

Abe Chooses BOJ Policy Board Nominee

Government Doesn’t Submit Name as Planned Wednesday

Nikko AM adds four to global sales team

The Japanese fund house has hired from BNY Mellon, Citi and Invesco to fill newly created roles, as it seeks to build out its international business.

Barclays names head of APAC blocks origination

Barclays has named Jack Yee head of blocks origination for Asia Pacific, a newly created position within investment banking.

Fidelity's Liu to retire after 27 years

Fidelity's South East Asia fund manager Allan Liu is to retire later this year after 27 years of running active funds

David McLean appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Westpac New Zealand

Mr McLean said he was honoured to be appointed to the role

Perpetual names new head of equities

New deputy head of Equities Nathan Parkin has 20 years' investment experience including seven at Perpetual.

SocGen names Asia-Pacific global finance head

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, a unit of French bank Societe Generale SA, appointed Sadia Ricke as head of global finance for Asia Pacific, effective Jan. 1.

JP Morgan names chairman of Japan banking

Financial services company JPMorgan Chase & Co appointed Katsuyuki Kuki as chairman of Banking in Japan

StanChart names heads of personal segments, digital banking

Standard Chartered appointed Chris Bayliss as head of personal segments, and Anders Carlstorm as head of digital banking, based in Singapore.

World's largest asset manager names Asia equities team MD

He will have research responsibilities across the Asia Pacific region as a senior portfolio manager and will report to Andrew Swan, head of Asian Equities.

RHB appoints HSBC veteran as retail banking head

RHB Bank has appointed HSBC veteran U Chen Hock as head of group retail banking

StanChart names Russell-Davison DCM head

Standard Chartered, the troubled UK-based emerging markets bank, has appointed Aaron Russell-Davison as head of debt capital markets with immediate effect.

PIMCO expands client analytics team

Investment management firm PIMCO has appointed Dr Laura Ryan as vice president, client analytics.

Principal plots Asia moves

Principal Global Investors plans to expand its third party distribution network in Asia and launch products that include an A-share fund

RHB Appoints Head For Group Retail Banking

RHB Banking Group has appointed U Chen Hock as its Head for Group Retail Banking effective Feb 1, 2015.

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