The latest moves in senior executive roles in the Asia-Pacific wealth management market.

HSBC Private Banking
Chow Shang Wei, market leader for Singapore and Malaysia at HSBC Private Banking, has resigned from the team.

Chow Shang Wei joined HSBC in 2016 and has gained more than 19 years of experience in the wealth management arena. 

Prior to joining HSBC Private Banking, he was executive director, Wealth Management at UBS, Singapore.

Recent months have been busy at HSBC and its wealth and private banking operations. A few days ago HSBC Private Banking in Asia-Pacific appointed former JP Morgan senior figure Sharon Oh as its chief operating officer. Oh replaced Gaurav Rao, who recently relocated to London to take up a new role in the private bank.

HarbourVest Partners
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Tadasu Matsuo as a managing director and co-head of the firm’s Japan office. Based in Tokyo, Matsuo will be responsible for enhancing and building relationships with institutional investors and general partners in Japan.

Matsuo has more than 30 years of experience in finance and has spent the past decade focused on private equity and alternative investment strategies. Prior to joining HarbourVest, he was head of alternative investments at Japan Post Insurance, where he oversaw their global alternatives investment programme, which included private equity, infrastructure and real-estate funds, as well as hedge funds.

Before joining JPI, Matsuo served as senior managing director at Alternative Investment Capital, a leading private equity FOF manager and gatekeeper in Japan, where he engaged in private equity fund investment and led business development. Matsuo received a BA from The University of Tokyo and a MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Man GLG
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management unit of Man Group, has appointed Andrew Swan as head of Asia (ex-Japan) equities. 

With more than 25 years’ experience investing in Asian and emerging markets equities, Swan will initially be responsible for managing a concentrated long-only Asia (ex-Japan) equity strategy. He will join the firm in the middle of the third quarter of this year and be based in Sydney, Australia where he will report directly to Man GLG CEO Teun Johnston.

Swan joins Man GLG from BlackRock, where he most recently served as head of Asia and global emerging market fundamental equities, managing significant client assets across multiple Asian and emerging markets equity strategies and helping to develop the firm’s investment platform in Asia. Swan joined BlackRock in Hong Kong in 2011, before which he spent 17 years at JP Morgan in various Asia-Pacific equity portfolio management and research roles. He earned a bachelor of commerce in accounting and finance from the University of New South Wales, Australia.