Frontier Investment Consulting has announced the appointments of Kenny Chiang, Vivian Yang and Norman Zhang as analysts.
Joining Frontier in April, Chiang was previously a graduate in the fund accounting and client services teams at Mercer Consulting, and before that, a technology consultant with the Singapore Ministry of Defence.
Yang was most recently an analyst in the investment structure and valuation and international security pricing team at National Australia Bank, and will commence duties from March.
Zhang will take up his new role in April, having previously worked at Ernst & Young as a senior analyst working within the valuations and business modelling, mergers and acquisitions debt advisory and operational transaction services business units.
Frontier director of consulting Fiona Trafford-Walker said Chiang, Yang and Zhang will join the firm's consulting team and be involved in both client work and investment research across a number of sectors.
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