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Ju-Hon Kwek

Senior PartnerNew York

Co-leads McKinsey's Global Wealth and Asset Management Practice and is a core leader in the Private Capital Practice. Ju-Hon advises the world's leading investors — asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, alternatives firms, wealth managers, and fintechs — on how to compete and grow across a global capital ecosystem that is being remade.

Ju-Hon co-leads McKinsey's Wealth and Asset Management Practice globally and is a core leader in the firm's Private Capital Practice. He advises senior leaders across the investing ecosystem — asset managers, alternative-investment firms, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, insurers, fintechs, and wealth managers — on how to compete and grow through the deepest structural shift the industry has seen in decades.

His focus is the business of investing: how leading investors define and execute growth strategies, sharpen investment and distribution models, pursue M&A and partnerships, redesign organizations and governance, and capture the potential of AI. He also works extensively with private capital investors and their portfolio companies on value creation, resilience, and performance transformation.

Ju-Hon is a recognized voice on the evolution of the investment management industry. He has published extensively on the forces reshaping asset and wealth management — including research through the McKinsey Global Institute on debt cycles and financial globalization — and is a frequent commentator in major financial media and at industry conferences globally.

Before McKinsey, he served in the Singapore Government managing security relationships with the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. He was also a naval officer and Military Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister.

Ju-Hon received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was named Baker Scholar, Henry Ford II Scholar, Thomas M. and Edna E. Wolfe Scholar, an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and a BA with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University.

Published work

The signal in the sell-off: Wealth management’s value in the AI era,” McKinsey & Company, April 2026

Asset management 2025: The great convergence,” McKinsey & Company, September 2025

The next era of private credit,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024

Beyond the balance sheet: North American asset management 2024,” McKinsey & Company, September 2024

Five alphas: Essential capabilities to succeed in the next era of private capital,” McKinsey & Company, May 2024

Everything everywhere all at once: North American asset management 2023,” McKinsey & Company, November 2023

The Great Reset: North American asset management in 2022,” McKinsey & Company, October 2022

EDUCATION

Harvard Business School
MBA

Yale University
MA, East Asian studies

University of Oxford
BA, philosophy, politics, and economics