Martin Young

Chief Executive Officer

Farringdon Asset Management

Profile:

Originally from Edinburgh, Martin studied Economics at the University of Stirling graduating in 2003 with an honour’s degree. Martin has over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. Having started his career in the City working as a stockbroker in 2004, Martin moved to Investment banking working for HSBC Investments in London. In 2006 Martin moved to Malaysia where he set up Farringdon Group a financial advisory business. Farringdon Group went on to become one of the largest Independent financial advisers in Kuala Lumpur. Martin moved to Singapore in 2011 and set up a joint venture with a local FA called Farringdon Singapore. The business was spun off in 2015 to form Farringdon Asset Management Pte Ltd. Today Farringdon Asset Management is one of the largest external asset managers in South East Asia employing some 40 staff across four offices in Singapore, Dubai, and Malaysia. The company overseas $1 billion of client assets. Farringdon Asset Management has played a leading role in Fintech in South East Asia where the company launched Asia’s first Sharia compliant Robo adviser in 2017 and in 2020 launched Abacus-Carbono a digital investment platform based on Crypto currencies, one of the first such services to be offered by a regulated asset manager anywhere in the world.

The latest articles from Martin Young

Digital & Technology

Fintech: are IAMs investing the right way? The right systems and tools seem to be inevitable even at the independent end of the wealth management spectrum, given a market landscape where survival depends on staying up-to-date with the many reporting, risk management and disclosure obligations..

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Digital & Technology

Fintech: are IAMs investing the right way? The right systems and tools seem to be inevitable even at the independent end of the wealth management spectrum, given a market landscape where survival depends on staying up-to-date with the many reporting, risk management and disclosure obligations..