Nomura hires head of China equity research

Japanese investment bank Nomura announced yesterday it has hired Wendy Liu from RBS as its new head of China equity research, based in Hong Kong. Liu joined as a managing director on May 11. The move comes after Henry Wu was transferred in the middle of last year to become director of research within Nomura Asset Management’s Shanghai office. Wu was promoted to chief representative officer last month. In the interim, the China research post was covered by Michael Kurtz, chief As…