On The Move
                    
                Aberdeen Asset Management announces two senior hires             
            
                    
                Daniel Choong joins Aberdeen Asset Management as head of Distribution for the firm’s Islamic business in Malaysia. He was previously CEO at Nomura Islamic Asset Management. His brief will be to develop a team, products and sales to both institutional and retail distributors in the country. He reports to country head Gerald Ambrose            
                    
                
                    
                        The Asset                    
                
                 
                
                    4 Nov 2015                
            
     
    
        
                    
                
                
                                Daniel Choong joins Aberdeen Asset Management as head of Distribution for the firm’s Islamic business in Malaysia. He was previously CEO at Nomura Islamic Asset Management. His brief will be to develop a team, products and sales to both institutional and retail distributors in the country. He reports to country head Gerald Ambrose.
 
In Taiwan, Darrel Chang has been made head of Institutional Sales, also a new role. His appointment recognises the growing importance to Aberdeen of institutions, sales efforts having been focused until now on retail mutual funds. Chang’s most recent post was at Schroders. He joins a senior management team under Michelle Maa, acting country head.