Life after Chua

THE NEWS CAME as a shock to many in the stockbroking community. On March 3, 1992, the nine-year-old partnership of the `odd couple', Abdul Rashid Hussain and Chua Ma Yu, fell apart. Both men announced that it was an amicable separation. But sources close to them say the `divorce' was inevitable. Strains had already begun to appear sometime before the split. `It came to a point that both men were actually uncomfortable with each other,' says one source. In the event, Chua sold out and set up his own business. At that time many analysts felt RHB would be affected as a result of Chua's departure. After all, they reasoned, Chua brought in the largely Chinese retail business while Rashid…