SINGAPORE — Gloria Lee, born Woo Sau Yin, was put to rest following a private funeral last Friday (Sept 1). Her quiet passing belies a high-profile career in Singapore's stock market. In 1972, Lee founded stock brokerage which was sold to Malaysia's Maybank in 2011. In what was then a male-dominated world, her story was an unlikely one. A former...
Her quiet passing belies a high-profile career in Singapore's stock market.In what was then a male-dominated world, her story was an unlikely one.
In 1972, she made history as the first woman who bought a seat at the stock exchange, with $700,000 in savings and bank loans. Her husband was a founding partner in the law firm Lee & Lee, and the younger brother of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.Its public offering attracted $23 billion in subscriptions for an offering of $29.3 million.
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