Our Chief Investment Office is made up of a team of investment leaders specially selected for their diverse experiences, network and worldviews. We perform extensive, in-depth research to uncover the most promising opportunities wherever they emerge, with a particular focus on Asian equities and emerging market credit.
Over the years, we’ve built a reputation as Asia’s global private bank, known for our strong cross-asset research, advisory and portfolio management capabilities. With our key strengths in Asia and the emerging markets, the CIO team has been awarded 'Best Private Bank for Investment Research'.
Global Chief Investment Officer
Jean is a Managing Director and Head of the Portfolio Management and Research Office responsible for Macroeconomics, Investment Strategy, FX, Equity and Fixed Income Research, Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM), among others. Jean has over two decades experience including at UBS and Allianz Global Investors and holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Chief Investment Strategist
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.
Chief Economist and Head of Fixed Income and FX Research
Mansoor is a Managing Director with over two decades' experience in London, Zurich and Singapore as the Global Head of FX Strategy at UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland. Mansoor speaks to policymakers and central bankers and his views are regularly published in The Economist and the Financial Times. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.