Pioneer hires consultant-relations manager for Asia

Pioneer Investments has hired Stephen Teoh as head of institutional consultant relations for Asia and Australia, as well as head of sales and distribution for Australia.It is a new position that emerged out of the companyÆs evolution. Pioneer Investments has grown rapidly via acquisitions and is now a Ç230 billion ($342 billion) global investment management company. Founded in 1928 in the United States, it was acquired by ItalyÆs UniCredit in 2000. The following year it set up an inve…