Aman has been in the financial sector for over 20 years in roles in fund management, investment banking, brokerage and advisory. He has plied his trade in United States, London, Hong Kong and Singapore

Prior to PACES, Aman held a position of Director at Commerzbank in the Credit Portfolio Management department in London (2015 –2019). In this role he managed around €5bn in investment opportunity and portfolio restructuring books. This included management of legacy structured credit positions, alternative investments, residential whole loan portfolio, and private equity.

Before this, Aman spent 4½ years (2011 – 2015) as an investment banker in Lazard and Co. Limited (London) with title of Director. This was a newly created business line initiated by Aman, focusing on Financial Institution Solutions and Asset Advisory. Aman helped restructure several derivatives heavy institutions including a major bond insurer, issued risk transfer transactions for clients, and provided capital markets / asset advisory to Central Banks. Aman also advised on more than €200bn of AUM to clients.

Prior to this Aman was Head of Alternative Assets at a fintech start up Amias Berman & Co based in Hong Kong. Aman headed the desk for structured products and trading of defaulted claims.

Prior to Hong Kong, Aman was a Vice President in Bank of America in the US. In this role from 2005 to 2009 Aman managed over $7bn in assets, predominantly in public and private credit including synthetics and cash bonds. Aman inaugurated the firm’s portfolio advisory business. In addition, he managed and designed quantitative system and credit reports to support business lines.

From 2003 to 2005, Aman was an AVP in ST Asset Management (“STAM”) in Singapore managing portfolios of structured products and CLOs. Whilst in STAM, he helped ramped 4 CDOs and managed a leverage private credit fund. Prior to STAM he was a Junior Portfolio Manager at Lazard Asset Management in New York. He worked on the emerging markets fund focusing on currencies and local debt.

Mr. Aman obtained a B.Sc. from London School of Economics and Masters from Columbia University and University of Edinburgh. Specializations were in statistics and financial mathematics. Aman is a CFA charter holder and FRM certified by GARP.

Having been in the financial sector for over 25 years and engaged in private banking roles, John is highly experienced in providing banking services to Ultra High Net Worth clients.

In the year prior to founding PACES, John assisted clients in establishing single family offices. Previous to that, John spent 9 years at Nomura Singapore Ltd as a Senior Relationship Manager in the Wealth Management Department. In this role, John managed a portfolio of Ultra High Net Worth clients for the bank.

Before joining Nomura, John spent 3 years at Bank Sarasin-Rabo (Asia) Ltd, Singapore as a Relationship Manager in the Private Banking division where he not only inherited a portfolio of branch and external asset manager (EAM) referred clients but also managed to independently increase his client base during his tenure there. Prior to Bank Sarasin, John was a private banking Relationship Manager at HL Bank Ltd.

John has also in the past been a Relationship Manager to private banking clients at Citibank (1999 – 2001) and Keppel Tat Lee Bank (1995 – 1999).

Between 2001 and 2004, John left the banking industry to incorporate a start-up business, The Learning Loft Pte. Ltd. The business initially started off as a language school and tuition centre. It expanded its scope into placement of students from Indonesia, China and Thailand into Singapore-based schools and learning institutions. In 2004, John left this business to return to private banking.

John holds a B.A degree from National University of Singapore majoring in Economics and Statistics. Particular concentrations in Econometrics and Actuarial Science. John is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, Bahasa Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Cantonese and Hakka.

Tong Yew has over 30 years working experience in the financial markets with his career spanning across Fund Management, Proprietary Trading, Reserve Management, and Investment Advisory work

From 2016 to Sep 2020, Tong Yew was Co-CIO and Head of Investment Products & Solution at Nomura Singapore in the Wealth Management division. In this role, Tong Yew managed the product universe, Discretionary Portfolio Services and devise asset allocation and strategies for clients. Prior to this, Tong Yew spent 6 years in RBS Coutts Bank Singapore (UBP) as Senior Investment Advisor. He was responsible for over $800m in AUM.

Before the financial crisis, Tong Yew was a fixed income portfolio manager. From 2007 to 2009 he was Head Portfolio Manager at Zais Investment Advisors (Singapore). Prior to this from 2002 to 2007 he was Chief Investment Officer at HVB Asset Management Singapore. In this role, he launched 3 funds and managed a macro hedge fund on behalf of the parent company.

From 1996 to 2002, Tong Yew held the title of Director in HVB Singapore. He was a proprietary trader on the credit trading desk. Tong Yew initiated jurisdiction arbitrage strategy across various Asian credit assets for the bank. He also streamlined the business to take on direct Asian credit risk.

Prior to HVB, Tong Yew was in Fixed Income sales at BZW Singapore where he also held title of Director.

Tong Yew started his career in financial services at the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a Senior Investment Officer in the Reserve Management Division. In this role, he managed approximately 10% of MAS’ reserves and he was also involved in the building of the econometric models that were instrumental to the Economics Department. 

Tong Yew graduated from National University of Singapore in 1989 with a Bachelor of Business Administration (honours); majoring in Finance

Ruth has over 20 years experience in front office, middle office and back office functionality including FX dealing, external audit, internal audit and compliance

Ruth has spent more than 8 years working in audit (including Internal Audit practices) and more than 7 years in the Banking arena with her career spanning across audits of financial institutions (Treasury, Credit Reviews, Trade Financing, Fund Management, Securities). She has also accumulated work experiences in a private bank and financial institutions dealing in trusts and foreign exchange trading.

She started her career as a Foreign Exchange Dealer before advancing into the Audit fieldwork performing External Audits with the Big 4 and then into Internal Audit Consultancy works. Her scope of work involved working very closely with the Management Board, regulators and legal counsels.

In her career advancements, she had been employed to setup a Retail Business, a Consulting Firm, a Trust Company regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and most recently, a CyberSecurity Company. Her role and responsibilities spanned across planning business processes, working with the regulators (eg Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Commissioner of Charities) and the staff personnel, to ensure process feasibility, while ensuring strong corporate governance. Her responsibilities included documenting the Policies and Procedures for the companies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and financial reporting standards.