Danny Quant has been promoted to director of investment consulting for South Asia at Watson Wyatt, and is moving to Singapore to take up the role. Quant has been running the Malaysia team in Kuala Lumpur.
The move is a response to the vacancy created when Andrew Budden, who had run investment consulting in Singapore, left to join Capital International in March. But the position is being expanded, as Quant, who is an 18-year veteran at Watson Wyatt, including 15 years in Asia, wanted to take on bigger challenges.
When Budden left, the firm's initial response was to merge the Singapore and Malaysian businesses under a single...