Meet Our New Chief Investment Officer: A Visionary Leader for Financial Success

Spring is full of vitality and everything revives. In this warm season of spring, we have exciting news to share with you? Mr. Zhu Lei, former Head of Trading, Head of Investment of Head office of ICBC(Hong Kong Foreign Exchange Capital Trading Center), officially joined us as managing partner and Chief Investment Officer (capital market) from April 8, 2024.

Mr. Zhu is well known and sophisticated trader, portfolio manager  in trading and investment in the global bond market.

Mr. Zhu started his career from ICBC headquarter when he got his master in UK , Edinburgh. After spending two years in Beijing , he started his fixed income trading and investment career in ICBC HK treasury center which is based in HK.

Managed $ 28B fixed income portfolios, before in charge of fixed income trading. He served all round position from Prop trader, Senior Prop trader, Head of trading, Head of credit bonds Investment. The portfolio he managed includes corporate and government bonds, with investment targets across all developed countries, all G7 currencies and all main sectors such as banks, TMT, car makers etc. He Pursued absolute returns and achieved impressive investment returns.

MR. Zhu is platform builder of dealing desk of G7 bonds, on behalf of ICBC, led his team to build up all round counterparties to most famous Chinese institutional investors, some sovereign investors from Southeast Asia and Middle East ; leading G7 bonds issuers and US, European, AU, JAPAN, KOREA, Canada IG bonds dealers , like GS, MS, Citigroup, HSBC, BARCALYS, BNP, NOMURA etc. and other market participants.

Mr. Zhu Led his team to support ESG bond issuance globally and two-way flow of RMB bonds on behalf of ICBC Headquarter, remarked the first batch of Southbound bond investment in market. Has comprehensive understanding of the fixed income products, markets, competitors and regulatory environment. He is be known as extensive researcher , senior PM on current market conditions to identify opportunities for portfolio enhancement on the market. He is also the rewarder of the most Astute Investors in Asian G3 Bonds for the past 6 consecutive years by Assets Asia.

It is a great honor to have him join us and bring fresh energy and innovative ideas to our team. We believe that his professionalism and experience will further the significant development of our entire team and greatly enhance our ability to continue to provide institutionalized and international asset management services to our clients.