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Arnulfo de Pala has been appointed chief investment officer at TriLake Partners, the Singapore-based firm said.

A Filipino and US national raised in the Philippines, de Pala joined in July. He has a financial sector career spanning more than 25 years, according to the firm’s website.

After working as a financial consultant for AXA in Los Angeles, he moved to Manila in 1996 and joined Union Bank of the Philippines. There, he was trust officer and, later, the head of market risk management. In 2002 he moved to HSBC, managing marketing, product development and training for the wealth management business. He was subsequently sent to the British Channel Islands to train the financial advisors of HSBC’s offshore operations around the world from 2005 to 2008, TriLake Partners said.

Later, de Pala returned to Manila to head HSBC’s trust department before joining EastWest Bank, where he was the trust officer and chief investment officer.

He earned his CFA charter in 2001 and is the former president of the CFA Society of the Philippines. He remains an active volunteer with the CFA Program and has served at the CFA Institute in various working committees for the last 15 years.

Earlier in July, TriLake appointed a former Credit Suisse executive, Dr Daniel Brunner, as executive director, senior client relationship manager. Prior to joining TriLake Partners, Dr Brunner was MD at Credit Suisse in the private banking and wealth management division, based in the Zurich head office.

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