Danny Yong
Chief Investment Officer, Dymon Asia
Mar 2008 – Present Danny Ming Chong YONG: CIO, Senior Portfolio Manager focusing on FX, interest rates and equity indices.
Feb 2007 – Feb 2008 Founding partner and CIO of Abax Global Capital (Hong Kong) Limited and Abax Global Capital (Cayman Island). Danny’s focus was on top down asset allocation of the firm’s special situations fund with respect to country, industries and sectors. He was in charge of hedging activities of the overall portfolio, and investment activities in SE Asia in both cash and derivative products.
Nov 2005 – Feb 2007 Prior to co-founding Abax Global Capital (Hong Kong) Ltd, he was Managing Director, Head of Asia Rates and Macro trading at Citadel Investment Asia in Hong Kong actively managing a macro and relative value trading portfolio encompassing foreign exchange, interest rate futures, equity future and options, credit derivatives and other interest rate derivatives in the US, Japan, SE Asia, and Korean markets from November 2005 to February 2007.
Feb 2000 – Nov 2005 Danny was Head of Trading for the South East Asian Derivatives, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange of Goldman Sachs Japan, actively managing a portfolio of foreign exchange derivatives (non-deliverable forwards), interest rate derivatives (futures and swaps) and equity index futures positions in markets focused on the US, Singapore, India, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan from February 2003 to November 2005. He was senior trader for Asian markets derivatives, fixed income and foreign exchange at Goldman Sachs Hong Kong from February 2000 to January 2003.
Jan 1997 – Feb 2000 Danny spent the three years as an Asian currencies and interest rates derivatives trader at JP Morgan in Singapore.
Apr 1996 – Jan 1997 Danny started his career at the Development Bank of Singapore as a Financial Engineer.
Danny was born in Singapore in 1972 and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore with First Class Honours in 1996.
