Top Morgan Stanley Asia banker targets US$10bil


Gokul Laroia (left) with Ted Pick. — Bloomberg

LAST month, as the US-China trade war heated up, Morgan Stanley’s co-president Dan Simkowitz made a discreet visit to Beijing.

It was the first time a senior US executive from the bank had stepped foot in China in five years, and came days after a rare board meeting in Tokyo near the Imperial Palace.

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