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| Hana Asset Management Asia CEO Son Won-joon / Courtesy of Hana Financial Group |
Hana Financial Group recently appointed Son Won-joon, former Managing Director at Brain Asset Management, as the first CEO to lead the group's newly-launched Hana Asset Management Asia, located in Singapore. With the appointment, the 43-year old will be the youngest CEO to serve at one of Hana Financial Group's subsidiary companies.
As Son gets to lead Hana Financial Group's first overseas asset manager subsidiary in Singapore as the youngest CEO among all its subsidiaries under the group's influence, market watchers say Son's long-time expertise in the global hedge fund sector must have been positively recognized, earning Hana Financial's trust in his capacity to bring in the necessary innovations and leadership to the organization.
The new CEO has assumed various key roles in the asset management scene over the past two decades, particularly in Singapore. He served as a director at Truston Asset Management in Singapore, and as a portfolio manager at Tokai Tokyo Investment Management Singapore. He went on to serve key roles at global asset managers, as he assumed the post of Managing Director at Horizon Asset and Point72 Asset Management.
After graduating from Seoul National University as a business major, Son started his career as a sales trader in the equity department of Samsung Securities in 2003. He also received a master's degree at the London Business School.
Among Korea's major financial groups, Hana Financial is the only one that operates its asset management firm in Singapore. With the launch of its own asset manager in Singapore, the financial group hopes to maximize its global competitiveness in the capital market with the synergy effect created in the Southeast Asian market.
