David Fergusson

David Fergusson is a Singapore-born financial-services entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in cross-asset investment, corporate finance and investment banking. He began his career in 1994 at NM Rothschild and went on to hold investment-banking roles at UBS and CLSA (including telecommunications coverage). He established Citigroup's institutional securities business in Indonesia, serving as a Director of PT Citigroup Securities Indonesia. He has won awards for both investment-banking transactions and research over his career. He holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from London Business School.

Fergusson is a co-founder, Director and principal shareholder of Woodside Holdings Investment Management (WH-IM), a boutique Singapore fund manager that opened to external institutional and ultra-high-net-worth investors in 2009 and runs the multi-asset Asian Wealth Fund (TAWF), spanning gold, equities, fixed income, private equity and alternatives. He is also a Director and principal shareholder of Nimoi Holdings Pte Ltd, a long-horizon Asian investment-holding and venture-building company that he has helped build into a roughly US$200m-per-year business.

Through Nimoi, Fergusson has co-founded and operated a cluster of financial-services companies. He has been Chairman and co-founder of Global Precious Metals (GPM) since 2012, a Singapore-based precious-metals trading and custody firm serving institutions and HNW investors. In 2019 he co-founded Hugo / Hugosave (Singapore's self-described first "Wealthcare®" savings and investing app) and serves as Co-Founder and CEO, a role that has expanded into leading Atlas Consolidated, Hugosave's parent, which now also offers HugoHub, a cloud-native banking-as-a-service core-banking platform for financial institutions. He has been an investment-committee member of the Dunfallandy Trust since 2007.

*(Note: a different, New York–based David Fergusson — of Generational Group / The M&A Advisor and the SEALSQ/WISeKey board — appears in search results; that individual is not the subject of this profile.)*

• Invests and builds primarily in financial services and fintech in Asia, with a stated mission to "democratize finance" and improve financial wellbeing, literacy and inclusion.
• Operates a venture-building / long-term ownership model through Nimoi Holdings, emphasizing "a long-term investment horizon," strict due diligence and stringent underwriting rather than rapid flipping — Nimoi describes itself as a partners' company taking long-term ownership stakes.
• Backs companies he can co-found and operate, not just fund — most of his "portfolio" (GPM, WH-IM, Atlas/Hugosave) are businesses he helped found and run.
• WH-IM itself invests multi-asset: gold, stocks, fixed income, private enterprises, private-equity deals, structured products and alternatives for institutions and UHNW clients.
• On the founder side of his own ventures, Hugosave's early capital came at seed and pre-Series A stages, consistent with his angel/seed-stage profile.