Bing Liu to join Manulife IM as Managing Director, Institutional Business, Greater China
Manulife IM Further Expands Institutional Business Team to Accelerate Growth in China and Across Asia.
In this newly created role, she will be responsible for institutional client coverage across the Greater China region. Based in Hong Kong and reporting to Peter Kim, Head of Institutional Business, Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), Bing is a key addition as the team is committed to driving the continued institutional growth in Asia.
“The strategic priorities for our Asia institutional business are to ensure we continue with our top-class client engagement, and accelerate our growth with our public and private market solutions across the region,” said Peter Kim, Head of Institutional Business, Asia Pacific (ex-Japan). “Over the past six months we have welcomed a number of key hires to our institutional team in Asia. Bing’s joining further strengthens our coverage for the Greater China region, a market where some of our largest clients and strategic partners are based.”
With more than 20 years of industry experience in engaging with institutional investors in the region, Bing was most recently Head of Greater China at Macquarie Asset Management overseeing the distribution and client serving activities. Before that, she has also worked at Lombard Odier, Societe Generale, and Carlyon Corporate & Investment Bank.
On the back of the continued institutional business growth in Asia, Manulife Investment Management has been expanding its institutional team over the past six months:
- Calvin Kim, Managing Director, Institutional Sales, Korea, joined in November 2020. Calvin has more than two decades of experience and relationships in the Korean market, and has worked across diverse capabilities including portfolio management, alternative investment and institutional sales. Prior to Manulife, Calvin was Head of Institutional Sales for Korea, Invesco. Previously, he has also worked at Lombard Odier, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Merrill Lynch.
- Babiana Chu, Head of Client Advisory and Servicing, APAC (ex-Japan) joined the firm in December 2020. Babiana leads the institutional client relationship management efforts and play a key part in driving the firm’s business growth with existing clients in Asia ex-Japan. With more than two decades of experience, Babiana joined from GAM where she was Client Director. Prior to GAM, Babiana worked at JF Asset Management for nine years, largely focused on institutional business in Asia.
On the private markets front, Peter Lee, Managing Director, Institutional Sales, who joined the firm in October 2019, has been focusing on private assets such as private equity and credit, infrastructure, real estate, timber and agriculture. Peter joined from Samsung Asset Management where he was Head of Global Strategy. Prior to that, he was the country head of Korea at Prudential Asset Management Asia, specializing in private equity investments.
Babiana, Calvin, and Peter are based in Hong Kong, and report into Peter Kim.
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