Aberdeen hires corporate governance expert

Aberdeen Asset Management has hired Peter Taylor in Singapore to join its Asian equities team. It is a newly created role in which he will work with the firmÆs 27-strong regional equity investment team to spearhead corporate governance and interface with company boards of directors across the region.Taylor has spent the past seven years at the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group. Working out of Washington, DC and Hong Kong, Taylor became a…