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Kim Eng founder Gloria Lee dies, aged 97. She started off from dealing room of now-dissolved Robert Wee & Co in the late 1960s. In 1972, she made history as the first woman who bought a seat at the stock exchange, with S$700,000 in savings and bank loans.

She named her firm Kim Eng – “Kim” after her late husband Dennis Lee Kim Yew, and “Eng” from the name of a family friend. Her husband was founding partner in the law firm Lee & Lee, and the younger brother of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.

Kim Eng became Singapore’s first listed broker in 1990. Its public offering attracted S$23 billion in subscriptions for an offering of S$29.3 million. Lee founded stock brokerage Kim Eng Holdings, which was sold to Malaysia’s Maybank in 2011.

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In what was then a male-dominated world, her story was an unlikely one. A former air stewardess who became a housewife, Lee told The Straits Times in 1998 that she went into the broking industry because her doctor had ordered her to keep out of the sun and stop playing so much golf.

“I (She) went into stockbroking to escape the sun,” she said...
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Kim Eng Holdings public offering attracted S$23bil in subscriptions for an offering of S$29.3 million.

Company then expanded from Singapore to Malaysia, to Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, becoming a household name in the stockbroking industry of the region.

Lee stepped down as chairman and a director of Kim Eng Holdings in 2008, at the age of 82, passing the helm to her son Ronald Ooi Thean Yat.

Maybank later acquired Kim Eng for US$1.4 billion. The company was taken private and rebranded as Maybank Kim Eng.

Story of the Kim Eng name was dropped in 2021, how this event concluding story ended in the brokerage’s history in Singapore.

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Kim Eng Holdings public offering attracted S$23bil in subscriptions for an offering of S$29.3 million.

Company then expanded from Singapore to Malaysia, to Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, becoming a household name in the stockbroking industry of the region.

Lee stepped down as chairman and a director of Kim Eng Holdings in 2008, at the age of 82, passing the helm to her son Ronald Ooi Thean Yat.

Maybank later acquired Kim Eng for US$1.4 billion. The company was taken private and rebranded as Maybank Kim Eng.

Story of the Kim Eng name was dropped in 2021, how this event concluding story ended in the brokerage’s history in Singapore.

Kim Eng founder Gloria Lee passed away aged, 97. Rip...

She passed Kim Eng Holdings in 2008, at the age of 82, to son to helm for her. Ronald Ooi Thean Yat. 
Her late husband Dennis Lee Kim Yew, her late husband was founding partner in the law firm Lee & Lee, and is the younger brother of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.

[Blasterlord2]

"Eng" is name of her lover?

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"Eng" is name of her lover?

She named her firm "Kim" and "Eng" – “Kim” after her late husband Dennis Lee Kim Yew, and “Eng” from the name of a family friend. It is (her late) "family friend." So I see, been be very good friend.

[Stoki]

She named her firm "Kim" and "Eng" – “Kim” after her late husband Dennis Lee Kim Yew, and “Eng” from the name of a family friend. It is (her late) "family friend." So I see, been be very good friend.

Kim is the 2nd husband name. Eng could be first husband name