This publication brings latest news of moves and appointments in the Asia-Pacific wealth management market.

US-headquartered investment house T Rowe Price has appointed Elsie Chan as head of intermediary sales for Asia, excluding the Japan and Australia markets. She will report to Scott Keller, head of global investment services for the Asia-Pacific region. 

In the new role, Chan will be responsible for creating the strategy for, and the build-out of, the financial intermediaries business in Asia, a task that includes recruiting a team of locally-based relationship managers and developing product solutions. 

Previously, Chan was a managing director at UBS Global Asset Management responsible for all aspects of wholesale distribution in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia including sales and marketing, product development and management. Her career started in 1998 in the US with Merrill Lynch & Co (now BlackRock) where she worked in Chicago and New York. Before joining UBS Global Asset Management in 2006, she held various roles at Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (now Allianz Asset Management) and ABN AMRO Asset Management (now BNP Paribas Asset Management).

T Rowe Price oversees a total of $773 billion of client assets.