In Asia, the Wealth Management Field Favors Women

Tan Su Shan felt her first pangs of labor while trading yen for a wealth management client. She took her laptop and phone to a Singapore delivery room and set up a foreign exchange operation lying on her back as doctors administered nitrous oxide. She was taking gas, calling the client, and trying to go, 'Haaaaah,' recalls Tan, 45, who then worked for Morgan Stanley and now heads private and consumer banking at DBS Group Holdings. Tan's heroics are hardly typical, but women are excelling as private bankers managing money for the wealthy in Asia.