Networking Night for Buyside Professionals
Calling all friends from the buy-side and hedge funds - it’s time to take control of your financial future in a scientific evidence-based approach, in the same way you scrutinise your portfolio companies and investments!
Join us on Monday, 10 February, from 6:30-8:00pm for a happy hour networking to connect with new and old friends over canapes and wine while learning more about how you can better manage your personal wealth at ease. The event is hosted by Endowus leaders Samuel Rhee, Co-Founder, Chairman & Group CIO; Hugh Chung, Chief Investment Officer; and Janet Hung, Head of Client Advisory, Hong Kong, from their buyside, sellside and allocator experience they will share and compare how institutions and family offices evaluate alternatives. More importantly, the pair will also shed light on the value of building an alternatives allocation into personal portfolios.
Event Information:
Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM HKT
Venue: Central (disclosed upon confirmation)
Register your interest today. Happy hour drinks on the house.
About the Speakers
Samuel Rhee, Co-Founder, Chairman & Group CIO, Endowus
Samuel Rhee is Co-founder, Chairman and the Group CIO of Endowus, Asia’s leading digital wealth platform. He is the former CEO and CIO of Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Asia, with nearly three decades of institutional investing experience in Singapore, Hong Kong, and London.
Today, Sam heads the Endowus Group Investment Office and ensures every client has greater access to holistic portfolios that are thoughtfully designed to meet their specific wealth goals. He is responsible for the company’s asset allocation and investment selection across all offerings, with a vision to provide individual investors with the same knowledge, resources, and products traditionally only made available to institutional investors, at a low, fair fee. Endowus solves the biggest problems of wealth and investing, and retirement adequacy, leading the firm to become the first and largest digital advisor for CPF investing in Singapore.
Hugh Chung, Chief Investment Officer, Endowus
Hugh Chung is the Chief Investment Officer at Endowus. In his current role, Hugh leads the integration of investment functions and strategies across the Endowus Group. He oversees the centralised Investment Office, which provides group strategic direction on the expert curation and management of all investment solutions across public and private markets, for individual and institutional investors in Hong Kong and Singapore. Before joining Endowus, Hugh has more than 20 years of experience in the asset management and financial advisory space in Asia. In his previous role as the Chief Investment Officer for a single family office, he was responsible for strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction and fund selection across all regions and asset classes. Hugh was also previously Managing Director at Kadensa Capital and Azentus Capital as the founding member and senior investor of two of the most successful hedge fund launches in Asia. Before this, Hugh had oversight of Korea equity distribution at J.P. Morgan, and began his career at Goldman Sachs and Samsung Securities.
Janet Hung, Head of Client Advisory, Hong Kong, Endowus
Janet Hung is Head of Client Advisory Hong Kong at Endowus. Before Endowus, Janet was on the Asia Prime Brokerage sales team at Nomura covering global hedge fund investors.
She started her career at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers Asia with a background in ECM and Research Sales, providing deal access and ideas to Asian equity managers. Janet holds a CFA Certificate in ESG Investing, and was the 2023 Women In Finance Asia award winner for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion.