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.
Ho moves to Merrill from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, where he was head strategist for Hong Kong and China research for the past two years. Prior to that, he spent 18 years on the buy-side at Atlantis Fund Management, Baring Asset Management and Schroder Investment Management.
Budiman moves from JP Morgan...