Anthony Moody, the man behind the rise of Zurich Scudder Investments' success in Asia before the US firm was acquired by Deutsche Bank, is now running his own business of micro-lending and private equity investing.
Moody remained in Hong Kong and is president and CEO of his own firm, Hermes Hermes. He has put forward $100,000 of his own money into a fund that provides micro investments to people in Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines. Although modest compared to the tens of billions of dollars that Zurich Scudder ran or advised on in Japan and Asia, Moody is using his investment experience not only to make money but directly contribute to alleviating poverty...
