People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - MSCI, JP Morgan
The latest wealth management executive moves in the Asia-Pacific region.
MSCI
Global market index organisation MSCI has appointed Chitra Hepburn
as head of environmental, social and governance client coverage
for Asia-Pacific. Hepburn is based in Shanghai, and reports to
Jack Lin, head of APAC client coverage at MSCI.
Hepburn will be responsible for driving the growth of MSCI ESG Research in the APAC market, as well as leveraging its ratings, research and data across MSCI, such as, ESG Indexes and ESG analytics.
Most recently Hepburn was a managing director at ESG Global, a post she held since February 2017. Prior to this, she was Greater China head of Sustainability, Corporate Communications and CSR for Bayer, across the three divisions of Pharmaceuticals, Crop Science and Consumer Care. Earlier in her career she worked at WestLB, Deutsche Bank and Adelphi Capital Partners.
JP Morgan
JP Morgan
Asset Management has appointed Nick Kim as exchange
traded-fund specialist at its Asia Beta Strategies team, with a
focus on Asia ETFs.
Kim will focus on bringing the firm’s global ETF capabilities, including more than 30 ETFs listed in the US and more than 20 ETFs listed in Europe, to Asian investors on a cross-border basis, as well as working with the broader team on strategic, long-term product development initiatives.
Prior to this, Kim worked at Mirae Asset Global Investment, where he served as global ETF sales vice president. He is based in Hong Kong and reports to Sean Cunningham, head of Asia ETFs at JP Morgan Asset Management.
