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Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – ING, Robeco

Editorial Staff 28 January 2022

Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? – ING, Robeco

The latest moves and appointments in and around the Asia-Pacific wealth management industry.

ING
ING has appointed Darren Beatty as its head of real estate finance for Australia, taking over from Wouter Mijnen, who returned to ING’s head office in Amsterdam following a five-year secondment in Australia.

Beatty will report hierarchically to Margreet Rog-Stokkink, head of wholesale banking for Australia (interim) and functionally to Robert Scholten, head of real estate finance for Asia-Pacific. Beatty, a career banker, has more than 20 years’ industry experience. He is joining from Westpac Institutional Bank, where he was senior director, institutional real estate.

Robeco
Robeco, the Netherlands-based investment house, has appointed Thu Ha Chow to the newly-created role of head of fixed income Asia. Chow is based in Singapore office and Robeco plans to make more hires for its teams in its office there.

Prior to this role, Chow was portfolio manager and Asia strategist at Loomis Sayles & Co and head of Asian credit at Aberdeen Asset Management, both in Singapore. Previously, she worked for 15 years in London where she held senior fixed income positions at Deutsche Asset Management and Threadneedle Asset Management, in addition to three years in investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston. 

In addition to her role, Chow is also portfolio manager in the credit team with a focus on Asian credits. She will be reporting to the credit team in Rotterdam. 

Frank Reynaerts and Tiansi Wang, two senior investment professionals with careers at Robeco, will continue in their roles as senior credit analysts. Laura Bosch FerretĂ© will relocate to Singapore from Rotterdam to fill one of the sustainable investing specialist positions. David Hawa will also move from the Rotterdam office to join as fixed income client portfolio manager for Asia-Pacific. 

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