Mr. Siaw is one of the founders of Opus Asset Management Sdn Bhd and is currently holding the position of Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer in the company. He is also a Non-independent Non-executive Director of Abbas Investment Management Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Abbas IM Sdn Bhd), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Opus Asset Management Sdn Bhd. He started his career as an Actuarial Consultant at NMG Risk Managers & Actuaries Sdn Bhd. He then joined Gadek Asset Management (later renamed Phileo Asset Management) in 1996 as the Portfolio Manager in charge of fixed income investment where he grew the fixed income portfolio under management to RM430 million over a four-year period.
Later, he joined HLG Asset Management in 2000 where he was responsible for over RM1 billion of funds under management and a team of seven investment professionals. He was later promoted to General Manager, Investment/Chief Investment Officer of Hong Leong Assurance Bhd (“HLA”) in 2002 where he was responsible for approximately RM3 billion (of which approximately RM2 billion was in fixed income securities) of HLA’s investment portfolio.
Mr. Siaw holds an MSc degree in International Banking & Financial Studies from the University of Southampton, UK; a BSc (Honours) degree in Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and a Capital Markets Services Representative’s Licence.
