PEOPLE
TEOH KOK LIN
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
personally leads Singular Asset Management – a team of experts cultivated to deliver for our clients.
Singular is a tightly knit team handpicked to build upon each other’s talents. This team forms the bedrock of Singular’s character: endlessly inquisitive, creative and insightful, with an obsessive attention to detail.
Our team believes in balance, longevity, and integrity.
Teoh Kok Lin is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Singular.
He has over 35 years of experience in direct fund management and investment banking
Prior to founding Singular in 2002, Kok Lin worked at institutions such as Citibank, ING Barings, UOB Kay Hian Singapore and HSBC Research Malaysia.
Kok Lin serves as the General Council Member of the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (NCCIM); National Council Member cum Chairman of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Committee and Advisor to the Digital economy of the Associated Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM). He is Independent Director of Institute for Capital Market Research Malaysia (ICMR), and also the Vice Chairman of the Malaysian Association of Asset Managers (MAAM).
He was also the Independent Non-Executive Director of Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad (CGC), a subsidiary of Bank Negara Malaysia and Independent Non-Executive Director of Credit Bureau Malaysia.
He actively engages companies for research and conducts meetings with senior company executives. He constantly travels across ASEAN and North Asia for research and company visits while managing funds for institutions and high net-worth clients.
He is regularly interviewed for his opinions on investments by news media such as the Edge and Astro News. He is also a frequent public speaker for local and international investment forums.
Kok Lin is a CFA Charter holder and he was the former President of CFA Society Malaysia. He earned a Master of Science in Industrial Administration from Purdue University in the USA and a Double Degree in Electrical Engineering and Commerce (Finance).
