Luk Wai Hong, William
• Chairman of Investment Committee
Luk Wai Hong, William (“Luk”) was first appointed to the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Kenanga Investors Berhad (“KIB”) as an Independent Non-Executive Director (“INED”), and a Member of KIB’s Investment Committee (“IC”) and Audit & Risk Committee (“ARC”) on 12 April 2021. He was subsequently appointed as the Chairman of KIB’s IC effective from 3 March 2022.
Upon his redesignation from an INED to a NINED of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad (“KIBB”), the holding company of KIB on 1 November 2022, he was also redesignated as a NINED of KIB on the same date.
On 1 November 2025, Luk retired as a NINED of KIBB, as well as KIB, Eq8 Capital Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of KIB and as a member of the ARC of KIB. However, he remains as the Chairman of the IC of KIB in his capacity as a Subject Matter Expert.
He is currently the Director of Investment of Cotton Tree Capital Ltd, of which he is the co-owner, with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Luk holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan, United States of America (“USA”) and an Executive Fellowship awarded by the State of Washington, USA.
He has more than twenty (20) years of experience in various capacities in the financial services industry, out of which eleven (11) years were spent in Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He began his career in 1989 as an Executive Fellow and Transportation Finance Specialist in the Office of Financial Management in the State of Washington. He later joined Lehman Brothers, Hong Kong as a Fixed Income and Credit Trader in 1993. After three (3) years, he joined HSBC Markets, Hong Kong for a year, before joining Deutsche Bank AG in 1997 as a Senior Associate Director and Senior Credit and Derivatives Trader. He then became Deutsche Bank AG’s Director and Head of Structured Credit Trading and Principal Finance Asia, a post he held until 2004.
In 2004 and 2008, Luk was appointed as Deutsche Bank AG’s Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Credit Trading and Principal Finance Asia, as well as Managing Director and Co-Head of Saba Proprietary Trading Group Asia, respectively. In 2008, he joined Pacific Advantage Capital, Hong Kong and Singapore, as its Principal and Portfolio Manager focusing on credits and special situations, before taking up the position of Director of Investment of Cotton Tree Capital Ltd in 2011.