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Both started in September, according to their LinkedIn pages and Hong Kong regulatory records. They join Zhang Yingdong in Hong Kong, who has been institutional business development manager for North Asia since April 2018, her LinkedIn page shows.
Zhou’s role is a newly created one to strengthen client coverage, particularly for China, multiple sources said.
Zhou left Robeco at the end of March last year after 18 months with the firm, while Yip had spent two years at HKEx as an assistant vice-president, according to his LinkedIn page.
Meanwhile, Nikko AM has appointed an executive to replace Kang Taejong, who had looked after Korean institutional client coverage out of Hong Kong, a source familiar with the matter told
State s biggest business bust-ups of 2020 It was a year that tested businesses to the limit and as expected 2020 had its fair share of heavy-hitting Queensland business bust ups and defections.
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Subscriber only In a year that tested businesses like no other, 2020 saw plenty of executives switching allegiances, long-term business buddies breaking up and some major legal disputes hit the headlines.
SURF S OUT One of the biggest lawsuits of the year came when Billabong founder Gordon Merchant sued top tier tax firm EY for $58m. Mr Merchant, the Gold Coast surf lover who founded Billabong in 1973, filed a Supreme Court action outlining how following tax advice for a company sale in 2015 had allegedly ended with him being pursued by the tax office, penalised about $13m and banned from running his self managed super fund.
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Colliers Hong Kong has hired former CBRE veteran Stanley Wong as senior executive director for capital markets and investment services, aiming to accelerate growth and attract new clients to the real estate brokerage.
Wong recently left CBRE, where he had handled more than HK$8 billion ($1 billion) in transactions in nearly nine years with the firm’s capital markets team, where he served most recently as an executive director focusing on trades of en bloc buildings and retail podiums.
Helping to round out Colliers’ investment team are senior director Freddy Wan, director Matthew Cheng and manager Joe Yip, all freshly hired after stints at CBRE.