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Summary Of Senior Asia-Pacific Wealth Management Moves – November 2025
Editorial Staff
23 December 2025
Asia’s WRISE Group has appointed four senior executives: Darren Ng (group chief financial officer); Jude Lin (deputy CEO, WRISE Private Singapore); Pushkin Kapoor (deputy CEO for WRISE Private Middle East); and Ken Wong (CEO of WRISE Prestige Hong Kong). Ocorian appointed Ginny Goh as director, private clients, Singapore, reporting to Andrew Ho, regional head, private clients, APAC. Goh has more than 18 years’ experience in trust administration, private client services, and wealth planning across Singapore and the wider Asia region. Raffles Family Office appointed Caroline Langston in the newly-formed role of chief people officer. Langston served as RFO’s executive coach for over five years.
Before WRISE, Ng held leadership positions at banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered and OCBC. He was a founding C-suite executive for a global Web3 blockchain company and served as group CFO at a Nasdaq-listed technology company. Based in Singapore, Lin has more than 16 years’ experience in UHNW wealth management; he has worked at Bank of Singapore, UBS, and Citibank. Dubai-based Kapoor has held tenures at Credit Suisse, Societe Generale, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Wong served in executive positions at CIS Wealth Management and Studium Wealth Management prior to joining WRISE in 2024.
Manulife made two leadership appointments to accelerate its Global High-Net-Worth (GHNW) business: Bonnie Qiu became CEO, global high-net-worth and chief partnership distribution officer, Asia; Rishi Srivastava, chief agency officer, Asia, joined Manulife Asia’s senior leadership team. Qiu works alongside Jean Wong, who will be retiring in Q2 2026 as current CEO of GHNW after nearly three decades of service at Manulife. Both Qiu and Srivastava report to Steve Finch, president and CEO, Manulife Asia.
Former UBS and Credit Suisse top-level figure, Francesco De Ferranti joined Singapore-headquartered UOB to sit on its newly-formed wealth advisory panel. Most recently, De Ferranti was a senior advisor at UBS in Zurich, CEO for the EMEA region at Credit Suisse, and CEO for global wealth management at that bank.
Standard Chartered appointed one of its senior figures in Hong Kong, Muska Chiu, as team lead, working with clients such as ultra-high net worth individuals at the lender’s private bank. Chiu has more than 20 years of distinguished experience in investment and product advisory. Over the past two years, he led the UK-listed bank’s investment advisory team and helped drive growth in Greater China and North Asia.
The bank also appointed Peter Horng as its new head of investment advisory and product advisory, private banking, Greater China and North Asia. Horng has more than 25 years’ experience in wealth management at financial institutions, including his previous roles in Citibank, HSBC and UBS in New York and Hong Kong.
Howden, a global insurance intermediary group, appointed Alaric Lee as chief commercial officer, Asia, based in Singapore. Lee joined after 15 years with Marsh, where most recently he served as managing director and corporate and commercial leader for Marsh Asia.
HSBC appointed Ruby Ho as head of markets and securities services (MSS) for the ASEAN collection of Southeast Asian nations, based in Singapore. With almost 30 years’ experience in financial markets, Ho joined HSBC in 2011 and held various positions across different asset classes. Prior to her latest role, Ho was head of MSS in HSBC Taiwan.
UBS appointed Chong Seng Kwa as chairman of Singapore and South-east Asia. Based in Singapore, Kwa reports to Iqbal Khan, president of UBS Asia Pacific and the co-president of global wealth management at UBS. Kwa has several decades of leadership across public and private sectors, including chairmanships of major listed companies.
Leo Wealth, an international wealth firm with offices in the US and Asia, brought in former Indosuez Wealth Management CEO in Hong Kong, Olivier Livenais as global head of wealth. He is based in Hong Kong. Livenais was at Indosuez WM, part of the Crédit Agricole Group, for more than 17 years.
Indosuez Wealth Management in Singapore appointed Eddie Chng as managing director. Chng previously worked for more than three-and-a-half years at Bank of Singapore; prior to this, he was at LGT for almost a year. He remains located in Singapore.
Schroders appointed Chee Long Chong as head of institutional business, Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, Chee Loong Chong has nearly 30 years of experience in financial services. Prior to this, he worked at Mercer Investment Solutions Singapore, where he was CEO, overseeing the firm’s wealth business in Singapore and its investment operations across Southeast Asia.
Roger Lau, head of pensions and retirement, Hong Kong, who was at the firm for more than 10 years, decided to leave Schroders to pursue a new opportunity. Matthew Pang, head of institutional business, Hong Kong, assumed expanded responsibilities to lead Schroders’ Pensions and Retirement Business for the market.
Matthews – formerly called Mathews Asia – said Tiffany Hsiao would be rejoining in mid-December. Joined by two of her former colleagues at Artisan Partners, Hsiao operates from Hong Kong. Hsiao originally joined Matthews in 2014 and departed in August 2020 to launch a China-focused private fund at Artisan Partners. Prior to her tenure at Matthews, Hsiao was a vice president at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
ATFX, a global online trading services provider, appointed Line Ho Young Peteri as vice president for strategic partnerships and affiliates. Most recently, she served as senior manager, strategic partnerships and affiliation at Exinity, an online brokerage.
Amundi appointed Chloe Shea as the head of investment specialists, multi-asset and solutions, for Asia excluding Japan. Shea is based in Hong Kong and reports to Florian Neto, head of investment for Asia, and Dan Levy, head of solutions business development and investment specialists.
US-based investment manager Capital Group expanded its financial intermediaries (FIT) team in Asia, appointing Ser Kiat Lim in the newly-created role of director, financial intermediaries, for Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Nomura said its international wealth management arm appointed Julia Wang – formerly of JP Morgan and HSBC – as its North Asia chief investment officer, a new position for Nomura. Wang has more than 10 years’ experience as global market strategist and economist for Greater China at JP Morgan and HSBC respectively.
HSBC appointed Kevin Hu, head of international wealth and premier banking (IWPB) for Taiwan. Prior to this, Hu was at Cathay United Bank where he had served as senior executive vice president since 2022. Before that, Hu spent 26 years at Citibank Taiwan, most recently as retail banking head covering wealth management, insurance and mortgage products.