Chan San San has been appointed Chief Partnership Officer at Eastspring Investments with effect from 28 September 2026, moving from the chief executive role at Prudential Singapore into the asset management arm of the same group.
The appointment was announced by Prudential plc on 24 September 2026. Chan reports to Rajeev Mittal, Chief Executive Officer of Eastspring Investments.
She brings more than 20 years in consumer wealth and private banking. Before joining Prudential in 2024 she was a Managing Director at Citi Private Bank, covering ultra high net worth clients across Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. She has led Prudential Singapore as Chief Executive Officer since that move.
Eastspring Investments is the Asian asset management business of Prudential plc, managing money across equities, fixed income and multi-asset strategies for institutional and retail clients in a number of Asian markets. The chief partnership officer title points at the commercial problem the business is trying to solve: how an asset manager owned by a life insurer converts the insurer's distribution relationships into third-party asset management mandates.
That is a well-understood but difficult transition. An insurance group gives its asset manager a large captive book to run, which provides stable scale but does not by itself build a franchise with external clients. Growing beyond the captive requires bank distribution agreements, platform relationships, pension and sovereign mandates and the servicing capability that each of those demands. Someone who has spent a career on the distribution side of private banking, and who has just run the group's own insurance operation in its most important regional hub, is positioned to work both sides of that relationship.
The appointment also tells you something about how Prudential plc is organising its Asian businesses. Moving a country chief executive sideways into a group-level commercial role, rather than out of the organisation, keeps the relationships she built in Singapore inside the group and applies them to a wider set of markets.
Her departure from the insurance business triggered a change at Prudential Singapore, where the group named an interim chief executive from the same date while it completes a permanent appointment.
For Eastspring the measure of the appointment will be net third-party flows rather than total assets under management, since the latter moves with markets and with the insurer's own balance sheet. Partnership-driven distribution typically takes several quarters to show up in that number, so the first meaningful read is unlikely before the second half of 2027.
