Market Watch Live: China's Stimulus Blitz

Jean Chia is Bank of Singapore’s Global CIO, responsible for the house view across Macroeconomics, Investment Strategy, FX, Equity & Fixed Income Research, as well as Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM), Advisory Portfolio Management (APM) and Funds Selection teams at Bank of Singapore. She is a member of the board of directors for BOS International Funds, Luxembourg and a member of the OCBC Wealth Panel.

Jean has over 20 years of experience in Private Banking and Asset Management. Prior to her current role, she was previously Head, Equities Advisory & Sales, responsible for the equities and derivatives business at Bank of Singapore, and Head of Client Advisory Services for Equities, Investment Products & Services at UBS Wealth Management, Singapore.

Prior to UBS, she was Vice President, Head of Grassroots Research at Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (now known as Allianz Global Investors).

Jean graduated with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford, UK. She holds a Sustainable Finance certification from Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership (CISL).

Jean is currently a Financial Women’s Association of Singapore (FWA) Female Champion and an Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Fellow for Private Banking and Wealth Management.

Eli is Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist at Bank of Singapore and plays a leading role in developing strategic and tactical portfolio asset allocation and thematic strategies across global asset classes and alternative investments for the overall banking group and portfolio management teams. He is a central member of Bank of Singapore’s Investment Committee, which determines the bank’s overall investment direction, and is an internal member of the BOS-CIO Global Advisory Council.

He was previously Head of Investment Strategy, during which he and his team spearheaded the transformation of the group’s investment allocations to alternative investments and oversaw the optimization of target allocations for the group’s medium- and long-term portfolio strategies. Before that, he was the Head of Equities Research and advanced the development of the group’s global equity coverage platform across US, Europe and Asia and investment processes in equity alpha generation.

Prior to joining Bank of Singapore and the OCBC Group, he was an investment analyst in the fixed income department at the Wellington Management Company in Boston. He began his career as an associate in Charles River Associates, a consulting firm in Boston specializing in arbitration in the financial sector. Eli also sits on the Wealth Panel of OCBC Group and serves as a member of the Investment Committee for The Salvation Army Singapore. Eli graduated from Harvard University with a master’s degree in Statistics.

Mansoor is a macroeconomist and financial market strategist with two decades experience covering institutional investors around the world. Mansoor speaks to policymakers and central bankers and maintains links with think-tanks in Washington and Beijing. He appears on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, his work features in The Economist and he has written for the Financial Times.

Mansoor was most recently at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment arm, NatWest Markets, where he was the Asia region's Macro Strategist and previously the bank’s Global Head of FX Strategy. Prior to joining RBS, Mansoor spent 17 years at UBS in London, Zurich and Singapore where he was also Global Head of FX Strategy from 2002 to 2014.


Mansoor holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

He was tutored by Professor Charles Goodhart, a former Chief Adviser at the Bank of England.

Hui Ling Boh is a Senior Fixed Income Research Analyst at Bank of Singapore. She is responsible for research coverage on China, Indonesia and Australia credits.

She has a long and successful career in Credit Research and had previously worked at Principal Global Investors, Bank of Nova Scotia, Opvs Group and UOB Asset Management. Hui Ling graduated with a B.S Accountancy from the National Technological University (NTU).

She is a CFA Charter Holder and Certified ESG Analyst holder. She speaks fluent English and Mandarin.

Louisa Fok is China Equity Strategist of Bank of Singapore.  Based in Hong Kong, Louisa works closely with the equity research team to generate Greater China investment and sector strategies as well as stock ideas.  

Louisa has close to two decades of experience in equity research, portfolio strategy and asset allocation experience on Asia. Prior to joining Bank of Singapore, Louisa was with UBS Wealth Management as Executive Director in the Chief Investment Office, where she led a team that was responsible for the research coverage and the development of investment ideas related to China and Hong Kong equities.  

Louisa holds a Master of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from University of London.  She is a Chartered Financial Analyst. 

Tommy Xie joined OCBC Global Treasury in January 2008 as the economist for Treasury Research & Strategy.

He is responsible for the Greater China economic and market research and currently heading the Greater China research team for OCBC Group and OCBC Wing Hang. Tommy is also a member of OCBC Wealth Panel. His views are regularly cited in both English news wires such as Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg and the top tier Chinese news wire such as People’s Daily, Xinhua, and Lianhe Zaobao. He is also the bilingual regular commentator on the televised media in Singapore and China. Tommy is the columnist for People’s Daily, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao and Macau Daily etc. 

Prior to joining OCBC, Tommy worked for the government agency in London. He started his career at Bank of China in Shanghai. Tommy received his MSc in Economics from University of Leicester in the UK.  He is also a chartered Financial Risk Manager (FRM) as well as a member of global MENSA.