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Pearly Phau grew up in Jurong East and spent 20 years in banking before being headhunted to helm Singlife, one of Singapore’s largest insurers.
SINGAPORE - A couple of years ago, Ms Pearlyn Phau rang her mother to tell her she was leaving banking to join the insurance industry.
Her mother, an 85-year-old retired seamstress who lives with Ms Phau’s elder brother in Perth, could not quite get a handle on the new job, and Ms Phau had neither the Cantonese vocabulary nor the patience to explain it to her.
