The latest senior moves in Asia-Pacific wealth management firms.

Bedell Cristin
Offshore law firm Bedell Cristin has appointed Joanne Verbiesen, a senior private client and offshore litigation lawyer, as a partner in its Singapore office.

Verbiesen, who has substantial offshore experience working for top tier firms in the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong, joins from HSBC in Hong Kong where she was a senior legal counsel in the trust and fiduciary services business. Previously she has worked in senior positions in offshore firms in the Cayman Islands and in Hong Kong where she was a partner.

A New Zealand qualified attorney with 16 years’ post qualification experience, Verbiesen specialises in commercial litigation, contentious and non-contentious trusts and estates work, offshore corporate law, insolvency and re-structuring. She has been admitted in both New Zealand and Cayman and is a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Hong Kong and Singapore.

The firm employs more than 150 people and has offices in the BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, London and Singapore.  

Value Partners Group
Hong Kong-listed Value Partners Group has promoted Edwin Kam as its deputy chief investment officer for fixed income investments.

Kam joined Value Partners in 2014 and has more than 14 years’ experience in the financial industry. He has direct portfolio management responsibility and has been working alongside Gordon Ip, the company’s chief investment officer for fixed income, over the years. Kam continues to report to Ip.

“With his extensive knowledge of the mainland China and Asian markets, particularly in high yield credits and private financing, Edwin has played a key role in strategic investment allocation and the portfolio construction process of the Group’s fixed income portfolios,” Ip said.

Prior to joining Value Partners, Kam was at Investec Capital Asia, where he specialised in advising listed companies on restructuring and liquidation matters, debt and equity securities issuance, as well as merger and acquisition transactions. Before that, he was an analyst at Deutsche Bank in London.

Value Partners had total assets under management of $13.1 billion at the end of March this year. It operates in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and London, and maintains a representative office in Beijing.