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UBS Global Asset Management has appointed exchange-traded funds veteran Sammy Yip in a newly created role as it seeks to build out its ETF business.

TG Lee, a senior director in institutional business development at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, left the firm in June.

ETFs and third-party wholesale to be the focus for UBS Global Asset Management in Asia as Kai Sotorp takes charge.

The long-serving CEO of UBS Global AM’s Asia-Pacific business is stepping down after leading the firm to a top-tier position in the region.

The firm appoints Tina Tse to coordinate RFPs for products and to target new business. She was Asia-Pacific head of institutional marketing for HSBC Global Asset Management.

Asset managers should not assume that China-derived inflows will continue at the same pace as they have in past years, agree the Asia heads of four big fund management firms.

Asia-Pacific MD Christof Kutscher moves to Hong Kong, leaving the Japanese business in the hands of Susumu Okamura.

Roger Lee will run the firmÆs Singapore office with a mandate to develop institutional clients in Asia ex-Japan.