The firm has brought Ben Waterhouse from Fidelity in the UK to head the intermediary business for Southeast Asia and the Middle East and serve as country head of Singapore.
Category: People Moves

Value Partners CEO resigns
Timothy Tse Wai-ming is to “pursue other business interests and opportunities” after working in the Hong Kong-based fund house for 10 years.
HSBC PB senior management moves
Siew Meng Tan is to succeed Bernard Rennell as Asia-Pacific head of global private banking starting next year, while Rennell becomes a senior advisor to focus more on the client side.
Vanguard reshuffles top Asia management
Citing a China build out, the firm has promoted David Cermak to head of Asia and Charles Lin to lead China business.
StanChart Private Bank shuffles Asia team
Richards-Evans leaves StanChart and Vishal Jain takes wider South Asia role at the bank.

Pimco builds out Asia distribution team
Pimco hired Steve Chiu and Stacie Wang for new roles to cover Hong Kong retail and China intermediaries, respectively, and plans to add more.
Top moves at UBS WM in Asia
After four years in Asia, Patrick Grossholz will relocate back to the bank’s Switzerland headquarters to serve in a global role.
New CEOs for Falcon PB and BNPP IP Singapore
Walter Berchtold will lead Falcon Private Bank and, separately, Christian Bucaro has become Singapore CEO for BNPP IP.
Noah shuffles senior execs
The Shanghai-based wealth management firm has appointed Ching Tao, the firm’s CFO, as chief executive officer of Noah’s first US subsidiary, which is located in Menlo Park, CA.
BOS nabs two for Philippines team
Bank of Singapore lured over two senior Credit Suisse execs to expand its Philippines team.