Christine Hyun-Jung Kim is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of IMM Asset Management. Prior to IMM AM, Ms. Kim led Institutional Client Group at Deutsche Securities Korea. Ms. Kim has over 24 years of experience from leading investment banks including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, and SBC Warburg.
Ms. Kim started her investment banking career at SBC Warburg in 1997 when cross-border M&A first started in Korea. She was involved in major M&A transactions for large corporates in Korea from 1997 through 2001.
From 2004 to 2022, Ms. Kim worked for Global Market Division at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank. During her 19 years in Market Business, she covered most of the leading Korean Financial Institutions including pensions, insurers, banks, securities, and asset managers introducing many ‘first-ever’ products in the Korean investment market. She has experience in a wide range of products from traditional assets such as equity, bonds, FX to alternative assets like real estate, infrastructure, private debts, commodities, and fund derivatives. Especially in structured financing sector, she has led more than USD 10 bn of cross-border investments with major Korean institutions for the last 10 years.
Ms. Kim holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Yonsei University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
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