Aman has been in the financial sector for over 20 years in investment banking working for top tier companies in the United States, London, Hong Kong and Singapore
Prior to PACES, Aman was Director and Portfolio Manager in the Credit Opportunity and Portfolio Restructuring Unit in London at Commerzbank for 4 years. In this role he managed around €5bn in management of legacy structured credit positions, alternative investments, residential whole loan portfolio, and private equity. He achieved double digit returns every year.
Before this, Aman spent 4½ years 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.
Aman headed various other desks in both public and private funds and financial products, with stellar results. He has achieved consistent professional and academic growth; Aman obtained a B.Sc. from London School of Economics and Master’s from Columbia University and University of Edinburgh. Specializations were in statistics and financial mathematics. Aman is a CFA chartered holder and FRM certified by GARP.
John has been in the financial sector for over 20 years predominantly in private banking roles. He is highly experienced in managing portfolios for Ultra High Net Worth clients and structuring their single-family office needs.
John spent 9 years at Nomura Singapore Ltd as a Senior Relationship Manager in the Wealth Management Department before co-founding PACES. In this role, John managed a portfolio of Ultra High Net Worth clients for the bank.
Prior to Nomura, John spent 3 years at Bank Sarasin-Rabo (Asia) Ltd as a Relationship Manager in the Private Banking division. John managed to substantially increase his client base during his tenure here. He was also separately inherited a portfolio of branch and external asset manager (EAM) referred clients.
John started his career managing private banking clients at HL Bank, Citibank and Keppel Tat Lee Bank.
John holds a B.A degree from National University of Singapore majoring in Economics and Statistics, with particular concentrations in Econometrics and Actuarial Science. John is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, Cantonese and Hakka.