SG says au revoir to equities

On October 17, SG hired Fook Cheong Woo, Sean Lee and Kyle Shin to do respectively oils & petrochemicals, telecoms and technology research. In what must be regarded as a dreadful irony, SG's head of Asian research, Sriyan Pietersz said at the time of the hires: "It is always a pleasure to see talented individuals joining us."There can be little doubt that these talented individuals must now be ruing their decision to join. However, they had due warning. There has been speculation …