Renaissance Capital bolsters Hong Kong team

Emerging markets investment bank Renaissance Capital announced yesterday that it has appointed Ed Mason to the newly created position of head of the Asia equity product group. He will remain based in Hong Kong and oversee the integration of the firm’s Asia sales and trading operations.

Mason joined Renaissance Capital last year as head of international sales, a position he will retain. The firm only just opened its Hong Kong office in June 2010 to sell global emerging markets securities to the Asian institutional investor base. It gained name-recognition in the region when it acted as a joint bookrunner on Russian aluminium producer Rusal’s $2.24 billion Hong Kong IPO in...