No Time for Pity as Yong Rises to Top of Asia Hedge Funds

As a 10-year-old boy, Danny Yong got advice after his father’s death from cancer that drives him to this day.

“My mother told me then, ‘Don’t let anyone look down on you just because your father died,’” he said in an interview in his office in Singapore, where he was born and raised. “Her words spurred me on and made me determined not to give anyone a reason to pity me for having lost my dad at a young age.”