Terry Farris has built a successful business from advising Hong Kong's super rich families on how to give a little back. His firm Farris Associates specialised in advising families on all things philanthropic from building schools and hospitals to making charity donations and setting up educational foundations.
Now Farris has joined a Dutch private bank, which is a leader in the same area in Europe, to help it build a charities and foundations business in Asia. That bank is MeesPierson.
I was approached a couple of months ago, says Farris, who had been located in Hong Kong for six years, but is now based in Singapore. I felt the overall...