With SG having severely retrenched its equity research effort a few weeks ago, it only seemed a matter of time before one of its top talents was headhunted from the remaining rump.
That has now happened. SG has lost Philip Mok, its head of Hong Kong research, to Deutsche Bank where he will have an expanded remit to look after Greater China.
Mok will join Ed Peter's flourishing new team at Deutsche. Since his arrival last year, the colourful Swiss has added around 70 new hires and built a boutique atmosphere within the German colossus see this month's FinanceAsia pg20 for a profile of Peter, and a photograph of his famous cow. He...