Acorn Capital, the Autralian-headquartered boutique investment manager, has appointed Paul Quah as portfolio manager, reports the Financial Standard.

Quah joins from Hong Kong-based broker CLSA Asia-Pacific, where he was head of regional small mid cap research.

Before this, he worked at Macquarie Securities in Hong Kong as deputy head of small cap research and at UBS Securities in Sydney as an analyst.

In his new role, will be responsible for analysing and selecting stocks in the consumer discretionary sector across all Asian markets, excluding Japan.