Within the last 12 months the accountant has added 66 new partners across mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accountant, has expanded its Hong Kong operations with three senior appointments. 

Tony Evangelista, Carlyon Knight-Evans and Angelica Kwan join PwC as Partners, in line with the company's aim to double its asset management team to 24 partners and more than 250 staff over the next five years. 

Evangelista was part of PwC's compliance practice in New York, which he helped set up. He also worked for the US Securities and Exchange Commission for two and a half years. Knight-Evans joins from Ernst & Young where he used to be the head of the Asia-Pacific asset management unit. Kwan was previously a US tax partner at Sidley Austin in New York. 

"The additions couldn't have come at a better time," said Marie-Anne Kong, the head of assurance asset management for PwC, in a statement. "We expect to see an increased demand for our service offerings to the asset management industry, especially after the announcement by China's vice president Li Keqiang to increase the trading of the Yuan in Hong Kong."

PwC has been actively preparing to meet the expected influx of investment into the Asian region. As of August this year, the company has added 66 new partners across mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan for 2011 alone, compared to 41 in 2010. Of the 66, 43 were assigned to mainland China, 11 in Hong Kong, 9 in Singapore and 3 in Taiwan.