Singapore wealth manager Lumen Capital Investors has poached two private bankers from Nomura, finews.asia has learned. The firm wants to further increase its headcount.
Lumen Capital Investors (Lumen) has bulked up with a newly-created North Asia Team consisting of Masahiro Kojima (pictured left) and Trina Pek, (pictured left below) finews.asia can report exclusively.
Both bankers have worked for Nomura's private bank in Singapore for the last five years. Kojima had also stints at UBS in the U.S. and ANZ in Singapore, while Pek also worked for Standard Chartered.
Originally conceived as a family office, Lumen was founded in 2010 by Julius Baer's former boss in Asia, Wilfried Kofmehl (left). Unlike major wealth managers, advisors at Lumen maintain their own profit-and-loss accounts. Swiss-born Kofmehl has spent the last eight years discreetly building up the business, which now offers traditional wealth management, trust, real estate and fiduciary advice as well as support on corporate finance. Kofmehl is the chairman of Lumen, while Jan Dirkmann (below) has taken over as CEO.
«Lumen continues to look out for additional partners which fit our criteria,» they told finews.asia. The company, whose name derives from the Latin term for light, counts almost 20 employees.
