BrightSphere Investment Group plc announced that it has appointed Guang Yang as its Chief Executive Officer, December 15, 2018. This appointment follows Mr. Yang's appointment as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors on November 30, 2018. He is the Managing Partner of H Plus Capital which he formed in August 2018 and the Founder and Chairman of Finergy Capital, a Beijing-based private equity fund, since October 2010.

Yang will succeed Stephen H. Belgrad as CEO. The company and Stephen H. Belgrad, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, agreed on a mutual separation of Belgrad from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Company's Board of Directors effective December 15, 2018.