Emerging markets guru Mark Mobius has nabbed former Franklin Templeton colleagues Carlos Hardenberg, who recently exited as lead portfolio manager on the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, and Greg Konieczny, to help launch his asset management boutique.
Continuing a structural reorganisation, Citi Private Bank has poached Timothy Morse to serve as global market manager for Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei.
Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI) is to hand the management of its two Asian equity funds to the firm’s global equities desk headed by Ian Heslop and part ways with fund manager Josh Crabb and his investment team.
M&G Investments has brought in William Tan as head of intermediary channels for Asia, filling the role held by Ben Cherrington.
Anna Marrs, Standard Chartered’s CEO for commercial and private banking and CEO for the Asean and South Asia (ASA) region, will be leaving the bank in September.
Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of OCBC, has appointed Derrick Tan as its CEO for Hong Kong, in addition to his role as global market head for Greater China and North Asia.
St James’s Place Wealth Management Asia has appointed Enzio Von Pfeil as a partner, while Citi Private Bank has named Catherine Cheung as its new Asia-Pacific strategist.
Julia Leung has been re-appointed as executive director for intermediaries and has been given a deputy CEO role for three years, according to a statement from the regulator.
In Asia-Pacific, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management has made 60 hires in six months, and the latest is Ingrid Widjaja for the role of Southeast Asia group head for client coverage.
The emerging markets optimist is reportedly starting his own fund management firm and has also joined the investment committee of Mumbai-based venture capital firm Equanimity Investments, according to local media reports in India.
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