Kelvin Tay
Regional Chief Investment Officer, UBS
Kelvin Tay is the Chief Investment Officer (South Asia Pacific) at UBS Global Wealth Management, where he also serves as a member of the UBS WM Asia-Pacific Investment Committee. He provides strategic research and insights to the asset allocation process.
Kelvin is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University's Nanyang Business School, where he lectures on Macroeconomics, Cycles, Bubbles & Crises and Investment Products & Advisory Strategy in the Masters in Asset & Wealth Management programme. NTU is ranked 19th in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, 2022.
Kelvin is also a Lead Lecturer at the Wealth Management Institute, where he teaches the Advanced Diploma in Financial Management, the Asset Management Accelerator Programme, the Certified Private Banker courses amongst others.
Globally, Kelvin is one of our most sought-after speakers in UBS. He is a bi-monthly guest host on CNBC Asia and a regular commentator on international broadcast media such as Bloomberg TV, ChannelNews Asia…etc. He also contributes byline articles on a regular basis to The Business Times, Hong Kong Economic Times, The Edge and other publications.
Kelvin first joined UBS Wealth Management Asia in April 2006. Prior to joining UBS, Kelvin held numerous responsibilities at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management (Asia). As the Asian Equities Strategist, he was responsible for equity allocation and managed an Asian equities portfolio. He was also responsible for selecting underlying equities for the private bank’s structured products and for conducting funds research.
From 2002 to 2004, Kelvin was a regional telecoms analyst at JPMorgan Chase where he was consistently rated in the top 4 in surveys such as Asia Money and Institutional Investor. From 2000 to 2002, he was also a regional telecoms analyst with ABN AMRO (Asia) Ltd in Hong Kong, where his team was ranked No. 1 in the 2000 Greenwich survey. He was also ranked No. 3 in AsiaMoney's regional telecoms analyst survey in 2001. Prior to that, Kelvin worked at Overseas Union Bank in Singapore as a credit analyst in loan syndications and capital
markets.
Kelvin received his MBA (finance specialization) from Imperial College, University of London in 1999, where he was awarded a distinction for his Master’s Thesis. He also holds Bachelor of Social Science and Bachelor of Arts degree from the National University of Singapore.