Merrill Lynch adds to research group

Merrill Lynch has added four new members to its Asian research group. Henry Ho will join mid-October as head of Hong Kong and China research; Verdi Budiman joins early October as a telecoms analyst for the ASEAN region; Stephen Corry joined earlier this month as a strategist covering pan-regional topics and Rachman Koeswanto has joined the Jakarta office as a research assistant for Indonesia.