Discretionary management on rise: ABN Amro

ABN Amro Private Banking has hired Jacqueline Koo from Julius Baer in a newly created role as head of Asian discretionary portfolio management based in Hong Kong. Koo joined at the start of this month, having resigned from Julius Baer in June. Initially she will look to build two reference model portfolios, one for Asian equities and one for Asian debt. She will cover the equities side, and she already has a fixed income portfolio manager on board. Beyond that she will seek to b…