State Street Global Advisors appointed a managing director and chief operating officer for Asia ex-Japan, a newly created role for the firm.

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, named Betty Ng as managing director and chief operating officer for Asia ex-Japan, with effect from 11 December 2017.

Ng joined SSGA from Agricultural Bank of China, where she was general manager of private wealth management in Hong Kong. Prior to this, she spent seven years at Standard Chartered where she held a number of senior positions including chief operating officer of private banking, North East Asia, and general manager of wealth management and priority banking.

She was previously head of wealth management at Citibank Hong Kong and head of Institutional Sales for Jardine Fleming in Asia. In this newly-created role which is based in Hong Kong, Ng reports to June Wong, head of Asia ex-Japan at SSGA, the firm said in a press release.