# HLB's Flagship CIO Fund Launched with Strategic Alliance with Lombard Odier

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- Published: 2026-09-28T22:04:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

_The HLB Chief Investment Office combines regional expertise and agility with Lombard
Odier’s award-winning Chief Investment Office._

SINGAPORE, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — **HLB Private Bank (or the "Bank")** has
officially announced the introduction of its flagship **HLB Chief Investment Office
Fund ("HLB CIO Fund" or the "Fund")**, a landmark wholesale fund from HLB’s Chief
Investment Office ("CIO"). Conceived as the core foundation for all future portfolio
construction across the Bank, the fund offers investors with direct access to premium,
handpicked global assets, supported by HLB’s 120 years of regional expertise and
agility alongside Lombard Odier’s 230-year global investment heritage and institutional
scale.

 [⌊Jeffrey Yap, Managing Director and Regional Head of Wealth Management, Hong Leong Bank⌉](https://mmx.prnasia.com/media/MS1997537/20260928103955EDT_image_1.jpg?id=OA2973956&p=medium600)

Jeffrey Yap, Managing Director and Regional Head of Wealth Management, Hong Leong
Bank

Recognised as the World’s Best Chief Investment Office at the 2025 Euromoney Private
Banking Awards, and named Best Pure Play Private Bank for CIO Office & Discretionary
Portfolio Management at the Asian Private Banker Awards for Distinction 2025, Lombard
Odier brings its proprietary CIO research and portfolio engineering directly into
HLB’s wealth engine. By uniting this international pedigree with HLB’s agile understanding
of regional client needs, the Fund provides a powerful Discretionary Portfolio Management
solution which strongly supports broad multi-asset diversification across global
equities, fixed income, and specialised market instruments.

At the heart of the **HLB CIO Fund **is a rigorous curation engine that grants clients
access to top-tier global opportunities including active fund managers, passive 
instruments, and high-conviction direct equity holdings, handpicked from a vast 
open-architecture universe of over 50,000 global funds. Integrated yield overlays
further enhance cash generation through equity dividends, fixed-income coupons, 
and systematic options strategies, ensuring capital growth is paired with consistent
portfolio income.

According to **Jeffrey Yap, HLB’s Managing Director and Regional Head of Wealth 
Management, **"The true strength of the **HLB CIO Fund** lies in how we curate and
deliver elite investment solutions to our clients. We have always advocated for 
strategic diversification as a solid foundation for long-term portfolio growth, 
and we look to provide investors with what we believe to be the best strategies 
and advisory available to achieve this. This institutional rigor is reflected in
providing a premium portfolio handpicked specifically for Singapore and the wider
region. As wealth management accelerates as a core growth area for the Bank, our
commitment is to provide sophisticated, advice-driven solutions that give investors
complete confidence across every market cycle."

Echoing this vision, **Marc Giesbrecht, Deputy Global CIO, Head of Investment Management
at Lombard Odier Group** highlighted the strength of bringing joint global and regional
CIO capabilities to the market.

"We are delighted to launch this fund alongside our Strategic Alliance partner HLB
Private Bank, reflecting our shared commitment to delivering top-tier performance
and investment experience rooted in a rigorous investment framework in an increasingly
complex world. This strategy embodies the philosophy and House View of Lombard Odier,
bringing together the full strength of our investment platform, combining the expertise
of our CIO office, global research capabilities and portfolio construction expertise.
The result is a differentiated solution designed to help investors achieve resilient
and sustainable investment outcomes across market cycles."

Driven by its 3-to-5-year strategic transformation, HLB has accelerated innovation
across its wealth management business, a commitment underscored by recent industry
recognition. Highlights include winning Best Private Bank in Malaysia and Singapore
at the WealthBriefingAsia Awards, as well as the Rising Star Private Bank Award 
for Malaysia and Best Private Bank for Wealth Creation & Preservation at the Global
Private Banking Innovation Awards.

For more information, please visit: [https://www.hlbank.com.sg/en/private-banking/home.html](https://www.hlbank.com.sg/en/private-banking/home.html)

 

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