Xu Yang

Xu Yang is a global partner at Tiger Brokers. He oversees the wealth management and asset management business for the whole group. The wealth & asset management arm’s AUC/AUM is over $1b consisting of stocks, ETFs, funds, options, futures and structured notes across multiple markets. Yang has 15 years of hands-on experience in quantitative asset management, ETF operations, and fin-tech. 

Before joining Tiger Brokers, he spent 7 years as a founding managing member at Alpha Architect, a US-based research-intensive asset management firm now with over $10b AUM. He also co-founded TradingFront, a turnkey asset management platform for major financial advisory firms and wealth management entities. TradingFront was seeded by ZhenFund in 2017 and was acquired by Tiger Brokers in 2018.

Besides his business activities, Yang is a seasoned speaker for many fin-tech and investment-related conferences, and he gives seminars about fin-tech and investment innovations to various financial institutions. For his passions and his achievements, he was selected in the "Ten to Watch in 2021" – the yearly WealthManagement.com Industry list of ten executive leaders who will have a transformational impact on the wealth management industry in the years ahead. 

Yang holds a Bachelor of Finance from the University of International Business and Economics, and a Master of Science in Finance from LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. He is currently attending the EMBA program at the Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance.