Macquarie Securities has further increased its Asia equity research team by hiring Michael Kurtz for the role of head of China research and China strategist. This appointment is the latest in a long string of hires that the bank has undertaken since Stephen O'Sullivan became the Asia head of equity research in the middle of last year. O'Sullivan has overseen an expansion of the bank's Asia research team that has increased the headcount to 238 people from 211.
Kurtz, a fluent Mandarin speaker, joins the bank from Bear Stearns, where he worked for seven years as the head of Asia strategy and head of research. Before that he was an Asia foreign exchange strategist at...
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