Michael Gilmore

Co-Founder

Singapore, Singapore28 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Authored three books on financial literacy.
Founded the MAIAwards to promote financial inclusion.
Executive produced the award-winning film Boiling Point.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial LiteracyInvestment Banking

Other Skills

Financial educationEquitiesAsset ManagementEmerging MarketsHedge FundsPortfolio ManagementCapital MarketsEquity ResearchInvestmentsPrivate EquityFinancial MarketsAlternative InvestmentsFinanceMutual FundsFunding

About

We can make money better. From the moment I first learned about money, investing, and finance, I knew I wanted to teach others. It shocked me that such a crucial subject was missing from my education—and everyone else's. To address this, I wrote three books on financial literacy: one tailored for migrant workers, one for my daughter, and another for those who find managing money a bit stressful. This led me to launch the MAIAwards in late 2021. The awards aim to recognize and celebrate the best work in financial literacy worldwide, fostering an ecosystem that advocates for our mission: "Make Money Better." Discover more about our work at www.maiawards.org. Over a professional career spanning 25 years, I've held roles at UBS, Nomura, and HSBC, where I managed research teams and led IPOs. Since 2014, I've been the Research Director at Albizia Capital, a boutique fund manager in Singapore that invests in consumer-focused companies in ASEAN. In 2017, we committed to the UN Principles for Responsible Investing, reflecting our belief in making money better—both at work and beyond.

Experience

Pcx

Non Executive Director

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Singapore · Hybrid

PCX has enabled more than 32,000 Metric Tons of plastic waste to be cleaned up and invested over US$2.7 million to support new plastic waste collection capacity and other circular economy initiatives. In addition, many projects directly empower communities with socio-economic lift and cleaner living environments.
All credits sold have received PCX’s well-established and publicly available Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard (PPRS) accreditation, which was the first of its kind when it was launched in March 2020.

The money awareness and inclusion awards

Founder

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Singapore

The Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards are a celebration of people working to make the world of money more open, more inclusive.

Boiling point movie

Executive Producer

Mar 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

Thanks to Hester Ruoff at Burton Fox and Bart Ruspoli of Ascendant Productions, I was invited to exec produce Boiling Point, directed by Philip Barantini and starring Stephen Graham at the top of a truly impressive cast ensemble performance.
Nominated for 4 BAFTA awards and winning 4 BIFA awards, the movie outperformed all expectations.

Albizia capital

Research Director

Apr 2014 – Present · 12 yrs · Singapore

Research Director at Albizia Capital, an independent boutique fund management company based in Singapore, investing in consumer-focused companies in Asean.

Financial literacyFinancial educationEquitiesAsset ManagementInvestment BankingEmerging Markets+14

Hsbc

Director Asian Equities Sales

Apr 2010 – Mar 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Singapore

Institutional Equities Sales and Account Manager to large Institutional fundamentally-oriented funds. Focus was on building the Asean product, with particular emphasis on Indonesia, as well as the broader Asian consumer sector.
Michael helped re-brand the HSBC franchise in Singapore, raising it from a low-lying position with his client base to tiered across the board, and top 3 with a number of blue-chip names.

3 degrees asset management

Managing Principal

May 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos · Singapore

Michael joined 3 Degrees to help the firm launch a new fund that would add equity to its distressed debt expertise. Unfortunately the fund, slated for launch in October 2008, did not launch due to the Global Financial Crisis.

Nomura

Director of Asia Consumer and Media Research

Feb 2005 – May 2008 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

Michael built Nomura's Asian consumer equities research team from scratch, finding analysts to cover the food, beverage, tobacco, retail and media industries from Asean to Hong Kong, China and Korea.
The period 2005 to 2008 saw specific interest first on Korea and then on China. Michael was the lead analyst on what was then the world's largest retail IPO, Lotte Shopping.
By 2007 and 2008, however, much of the attention had shifted to China, and the team produced a series of reports on the emergence of China's middle class consumption called "The Great Leap Upward".

Ubs investment bank

Director of Asian Consumer and Media Research

Aug 1999 – Feb 2005 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Michael started as Head of Research for Indonesia, running a team of three analysts, focussing his own research on the consumer sector, including key names such as Gudang Garam, HM Sampoerna, Ramayana, Matahari, Kalbe Farma and Temposcan. In 2000, he produced a report that highlighted how the Indonesian consumer would be the first sector to return to strength after the Asian Financial Crisis, called "When you live on the volcano, you learn to go with the flow."
While in Indonesia, he raised the ranking of the UBS research team from 5th to 1st, according to Institutional Investor.
In 2002, he from Indonesia to Singapore to be Head of Regional Consumer and Media Research, and ran a team of 12 analysts across Asia. He was lead analyst on a number of headline deals including Astro in Malaysia, Starhub in Singapore, KT&G in Korea. Two key stock ideas through this period were a positive call on Shinsegae and a negative call on Esprit.
During this period he raised UBS's Consumer sector research from 9th in II to 2nd, and media research from not-mentioned to Runner Up.