Sam Phoen is a financial markets practitioner with over 20 years of experience. His working career included 16 years in GIC, where he was deputy head of the Foreign Exchange Department. He also had successful stints in a large Singapore-based hedge fund, followed by over 6 years in Shanghai managing the China Global Markets business for an Australian bank. Sam is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and was formerly a board director of CFA Singapore. He is the author of High Net Worth Investing (2016), and his commentaries have appeared in the Straits Times and other media.