Kang Pey Chiang

Mr. Kang Pey Chiang, CFA, is a Chief Executive Officer at Public Mutual Bhd.
He joined the firm in 2004 as Manager – Investment Research and was subsequently re-designated as Manager – Investment, Equities Section where he was involved in managing selected equity funds.
He was promoted to the position of Senior Portfolio Manager – Investment, Equities Section in 2005 and assumed the position of co-fund manager of various equity funds.
From 2006 onwards, Mr. Chiang was appointed as the designated fund manager of selected equity funds.
He was promoted to the position of Assistant General Manager in 2008 and subsequently Deputy General Manager in 2015.
In 2016, Mr. Chiang assumed his current position as Head of Equity Portfolio Management and in 2017, he was promoted to the position of General Manager.
In this capacity, apart from overseeing the team of equity portfolio managers, he also actively constructs, monitors and rebalances the equity portfolios to achieve the stated objective of selected funds.
Mr. Chiang commenced his investment career in 1995 as an equity analyst at a stockbroking firm and subsequently joined the investment department of a life insurance company.
Prior to joining Public Mutual, he was attached to an asset management company; initially as an assistant fund manager responsible for analyzing and valuing listed companies.
He was later made a fund manager, jointly managing Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) portfolios where he specialized in Malaysian and Thailand equities.
Mr. Chiang holds a Master of Financial Management (Dean’s Honours List) degree from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands and a Bachelor of Economics in Accounting from Monash University in Australia.
He is a CFA charter holder and obtained his CMSRL on 8 February 2005.