Mr Terence Wong

Co-Head of Research and Senior Vice-President
DMG & Partners Securities Pte Ltd

Panel Synopsis

Operational Challenges in Brand Strategy Formulation

Brand strategy cannot be developed in a vacuum. Companies who do that often end up with unrealistic strategies that are next to impossible to implement successfully. Brand strategy needs to take into account the kind of operational challenges that are unique to every company and how to tackle them so that the brand strategy can have a chance of success. Our panel of experts will share with you their experience in reconciling the ideal brand strategy with the operational challenges that they face within their organisations. Singapore companies can learn a lot from these brand champions who can say, “Been there. Done that.”

Biography

Terence Wong is Co-Head of Research and Senior Vice-President at DMG & Partners Securities Pte Ltd. He was formerly the CEO and Chief Investment Analyst of SIAS Research Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based independent equity research company.

He has received numerous commendations for his work. He warned investors against the technology bubble in an article to the Singapore Exchange magazine Pulses (March 2000) one month before the tech meltdown. He was also ahead of the curve on the hard disk drive (recommended in Jan 2002), construction (May 2005), and small cap (Dec 2005) sectors, all of which were recommended well before the run-ups.

Mr Wong has been featured on financial programmes on BBC, CNBC, Channel NewsAsia and MediaCorp TV (Channel 5 and Channel 8), and is well-quoted in both international and local media, including Asian Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Reuters and The Business Times. In addition, his analyses and commentaries have been published in The Straits Times, The Business Times and Pulses.

Since 2004, he has spoken in over 60 investment seminars organised by the Singapore Exchange, Asia Seminar, CapitaLand, Lim & Tan Securities, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, NextView, NTUC, Shell, Securities Investors Association (Singapore), SIAS Research, ShareInvestor and Westcomb.

Mr Wong graduated from Simon Fraser University in Canada with a Joint Honours in Business Administration (Finance) and Economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder.