In a move signaling the ever-closer integration between equity research and sales, JPMorgan has announced the promotion of three of its young guns to senior positions in its Asian equity team based in Hong Kong.
Xen Gladstone will move from his present position of head of Hong Kong research and marketing to become head of ex-Japan and ex-Australia cash equity sales. The move sees Gladstone's transformation from gamekeeper to poacher. He started his career on the buy side with GT and then LGT before moving into research with ING and then JPMorgan. His ascent through the ranks has been swift and has been attributed to a keen Oxford intellect married to...