Morgan Stanley boosts Asia fixed-income research

Morgan Stanley has made two hires to its Asian macro research team.

Geoff Kendrick has joined the bank as its head of Asian forex & local rates strategy, while Kewei Yang has also joined, and is responsible for Asia Pacific interest rate strategy.

Both Kendrick and Yang will be Hong Kong-based executive directors and both were previously at Nomura. Kendrick was most recently head of European forex strategy at the Japanese bank in London and has 15 years of global markets experience.

Yang previously worked for Nomura in Singapore, where he was an executive director. Kendrick will report to Viktor Hjort, head of Asia fixed income research at Morgan Stanley, while Yang will report to Kendrick.

“These new senior hires strengthen Morgan Stanley’s research coverage and put the firm in a stronger position to drive our fixed-income sales and trading business through the insightful and client-focused research for which Morgan Stanley is renowned,” said Stephen Glynn, head of fixed income division for Asia, in a release.