Aberdeen European Smaller Companies A Accumulation

Yoon-Chou Chong
Located in: London

Yoon-Chou Chong joined Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd, the Group's Singapore arm shortly after graduate school, in 1994. As the first local investment manager, he was early on exposed to investing across the region. He later became instrumental in refining the Group's investment process and portfolio construction techniques, as the team expanded, and was made a director in 1998. From early 2001 to mid 2002, Chou was partly resident in Sydney, Australia where he was seconded to oversee the integration of the investment desk of the then recently acquired EquitiLink business. As investment director, he imposed discipline and rigour, restructuring the portfolios and turning around performance. This prepared for his transfer to head the UK equity desk (based in London) in September 2002. At the beginning of April 2003, Chou was appointed Head of Pan-European Equities. The appointment reinforces the Group's commitment to implement a uniform and rigorous investment style across the Group. He oversees the management of all of Aberdeen's mainstream UK and European portfolios. Chou holds a double Masters in accounting & finance and information systems from the London School of Economics. He qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst in 1997.