Ng Yeow Tong
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
Yeow Tong has more than 25 years of investment management experience in Asia ex-Japan equities and has worked out of the U.S., Taiwan and Singapore.
Yeow Tong first joined Luminous (previously known as Kingsmead Asset Management) in 2016 as a Senior Vice President for Kingsmead Asian Alpha Opportunities Fund and later the Portfolio Manager for the Kingsmead Vietnam and Indochina Growth Fund. He was previously the CIO at Eastspring Investments Taiwan where he oversaw equity funds, bond funds and global asset allocation funds; managed Taiwan equity institutional mandate by strengthening the investment process discipline and led investment team’s collaboration with external investment advisors that enhanced local expertise in international equity.
He obtained his MBA from Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan and Bachelor of Accountancy from National University of Singapore. Yeow Tong is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Ken Yeo
Chief Operating Officer
Ken rejoined Luminous where he first started as Director of Investments (at then Kingsmead Asset Management) in 2017, representing the firm’s Vietnam and Asia ex-Japan funds to investors. Earlier, he also served as COO at One North Capital.
Ken spent the recent decade working at startup investment units in a variety of responsibilities including investment research, marketing, and product development. Most notably, at Markov Process International, he researched hedge fund strategies and the replication of indices with liquid instruments. He previously hailed from Rosenberg Institutional Equity Management (subsequently AXA Rosenberg) in California and Singapore, where he headed the Asia-ex-Japan team of strategy engineers/portfolio managers, and later oversaw the implementation of equity long/short strategies.
Ken earned his BA and MBA at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a charterholder of CFA Institute and CAIA.