Barr opens in Singapore

After a spate of hiring last year - which started just as SARS was abating - ABN AMRO's broking head, Alastair Barr is at it again, this time in Singapore. Anton Kwang has been hired as Singapore property analyst, while George Koh, joins from Morley Fund Management to be Singapore banks analyst - he was formerly a number three rated Singapore banks analyst at CLSA. Meanwhile Kevin Chong, who joins from CSFB will cover the Singapore consumer sector. He is part of a two person team dev…