Mercer boosts Asia wealth management team
Mercer has appointed Edmund Teo to lead its wealth management team in Asia, providing research, advisory and portfolio management services to banks, insurers and other financial services organizations in the region. Pierre DeGagne also joins as a principal consultant.
Teo was previously regional director at Russell Investments and has also held senior client-facing positions at First State Investments and UOB Asset Management. DeGagne formerly worked at Standard Chartered where he was responsible for offshore mutual fund strategy and research for the private banking and retail businesses.
"In Asia Pacific, Edmund and Pierre will take our already well-established and very successful wealth management offering beyond ASEAN to the rest of the Asia region," said Stephen Roberts, Mercer's regional business leader for Asia Pacific investments. "They will also be partnering with a platform or virtual platform provider to offer superior governance advice, portfolio construction, investment management, and monitoring to banks, family offices, high net worth individuals and intermediaries."
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