Oppenheimer eager to broaden US-centric horizons

Oppenheimer Investments Asia is striving to strengthen its sales, trading and wealth management coverage in the region to add geographic depth to its parent’s US-centric investment banking capabilities. The broker-dealer, which is a division of investment bank Oppenheimer & Co, has added 15 equity and fixed-income sales staff in Asia over the past year, taking its regional tally to 28. Just last week it named Evelyn Kang as director of equity sales, Satsuki Kaneko as director of f…