The roundup of major moves and arrivals in Asia's wealth management market during February.

United Overseas Bank appointed Heng Yeow Kwang to its private bank as the market head of Indonesia; he was formerly the co-market head of Indonesia at Bank of Singapore.

Union Bancaire Privée appointed a managing director in Singapore as part of Asian build-out. The appointee was Jonathan Lau, who previously spent seven years at Standard Chartered. He was appointed to its private banking investment services team. He holds the role of senior strategist.Lau, who has worked in consulting for businesses including Deloitte and Arthur Andersen, worked Societe Generale’s private banking arm, and DBS.

London-based asset and wealth management consultant Alpha FMC appointed Michael Chaille appointed as executive director in Asia. He is responsible for the service offering to wealth and asset managers across Asia. Chaille has over 17 years of consulting experience in the asset and wealth management sector. After working at Arthur Andersen, he founded his own consulting boutique, Newtone Associates, which was sold to Chappuis Halder & Co in 2013.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group appointed Kevin Corbally as chief risk officer, reporting to chief executive Shayne Elliott. Corbally took over from Nigel Williams, who is retiring from ANZ to pursue a career as a non-executive director. Corbally joined ANZ in 2009; most recently, he has been general manager for internal audit after having previously held senior institutional banking and credit management roles. Prior to joining ANZ, he was managing director and head of corporate and commercial banking at Citigroup in Australia & New Zealand.

Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to alternative investment managers, appointed Alexander Traub as the new regional executive of Asia-Pacific. He is based in Singapore. Traub is also a member of the Alter Domus Group executive board. He is responsible for managing Alter Domus’ client relationships in the APAC region along with the development of the business. He has 18 years’ experience in the financial services sector, almost all of which has been spent in Asia with the last 10 years in Singapore.

NAB Financial Planning appointed Adrian De Silva as the general manager of NAB Financial Planning for South Australia, Western Australian and the Northern Territory. De Silva was most recently the national manager for wealth management at Beyond Bank. Before that, he held roles at AMP and BT Financial.

Global corporate, private client and funds business Hawksford appointed Irene Lee as a private client and corporate business development director to its Singapore office. Lee, who has over 15 years’ financial services industry experience, is responsible for building the company’s relationships with intermediaries and partners serving high net worth individuals and corporate clients in the Asian marketplace. She joined Hawksford from Equiom Singapore, where she was head of business development. Prior to this, she held senior business development and marketing roles at Icaza, Portcullis TrustNet, Citibank Singapore and OCBC Bank.

HSBC Global Asset Management appointed Sebastien Faucher as head of passive fixed income to its investment team. This was a newly-created role. Based in London, Faucher functionally reports to Xavier Baraton global chief investment officer, fixed income, and locally to Philip Glaze, CIO UK.

He joined from Legal & General Investment Management, where he was head of index fixed income, responsible for ongoing fund management activities across all index fund strategies, including fund implementation, client on boarding, and portfolio transition. Previously, from 2006 to 2008, Faucher was investment manager at SSgA Global Fixed Income. He has also held roles with the National Bank of Canada, both in Montreal and London.

Lombard Odier appointed Vincent Magnenat as a limited partner at the firm, in addition to retaining his existing position as chief executive for Asia and Asia head of private banking. He joined the group in 2014 as CEO of the Singapore office and Asia head of private banking. Prior to joining Lombard Odier, he spent close to nine years at Société Générale as regional head of sales and marketing for private banking in Asia.

BlackRock appointed Kimberly Kim to the newly-created post of head of financial institutions group, Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Kim formulates and executes an integrated business strategy targeting the region’s insurance companies. She reports to Andrew Landman, BlackRock’s Asia-Pacific head of client business, and David Lomas, head of global financial institutions group.

Kim joined from Deutsche Asset Management, where she was most recently head of global client group for Hong Kong and regional head of insurance coverage for APAC ex-Japan. During almost 15 years at Deutsche Bank, Kim worked across asset management and global market divisions, serving the region’s institutional client business with a focus on the insurance and asset management client base.
Wells Fargo Asset Management hired Wai Lee as global head of research at its multi-asset solutions team. Lee previously worked at Neuberger Berman, spending 14 years there. A frequent speaker at conferences in Beijing, Hong Kong and Australia, Leeso guest lectures at six universities in China and Hong Kong.

VP Bank (Singapore), part of Liechtenstein-headquartered VP Bank, appointed Samuel Witjaksono as market head of Indonesia. Witjaksono has more than 35 years of experience in the financial business. Prior to his latest role, he worked at several banks in Singapore and Indonesia.

Coherent Capital Advisors, a technology and advisory collection of start-ups working with Asia-based insurers, appointed former C-suite Manulife figure John Brisco as its chief executive. Brisco joined co-founders Michael Chan and Fred Ngan as part of the Coherent Group management team. Brisco was most recently chief investment officer and chief operating officer at Manulife Asia.

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust appointed senior managing director and director of portfolio management Chetan Sehgal, as lead portfolio manager of TEMIT. Based in Singapore, Sehgal took over from Carlos Hardenberg, who left the firm to follow other opportunities.

Sehgal has been a portfolio manager and senior research analyst for TEMIT for the past two years, working with Hardenberg and Dr Mark Mobius, who retired from Franklin Templeton on 31 January 2018. Sehgal is responsible for overseeing Franklin Templeton’s global emerging markets strategy.

T Rowe Price appointed Wenting Shen as a solutions strategist Asia-Pacific. Shen joined the Asia Pacific multi-asset division team in Hong Kong and reports to Thomas Poullaouec, head of multi-asset solutions for APAC. She has more than 10 years’ experience in the region’s investment industry and joins from Blackrock Asset Management, where she was vice president of multi-asset solutions.

Legg Mason appointed Regina Curry as chief diversity officer. Curry had served as senior director of global diversity and inclusion at McCormick & Company, where she developed and implemented a multi-year global diversity and inclusion strategy.

AxiomSL, the global provider of regulatory reporting, risk and data management solutions, appointed Roger Worthington as head of production operations. In this role, Worthington is responsible for leading AxiomSL's newly-created production operations team. He is based in Singapore and will report to Peter Tierney, Asia-Pacific chief executive AxiomSL.

Worthington has more than 20 years' experience in building and managing shared infrastructure, including networks and data centers, at financial institutions. Most recently, he served as the head of APAC operations at Pico, a provider of market data services and customised managed infrastructure solutions.

Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed Manraj Sekhon as chief investment officer of emerging markets equity. He oversees the emerging markets equity teams across the organization, and will be based in the firm’s Singapore office. He reports to Stephen Dover, head of Equities. Prior to thisSekhon served as the chief executive, CIO and director of Fullerton Fund Management, a Singapore-based asset manager.

AXA Investment Managers appointed Florence Dard as global head of business development. She  leads a newly-created business development department. It will comprise the client capital group, research and strategy, marketing and communication and product development teams. She spent more than 18 years at the AXA Group in various positions including 13 years within AXA Investment Managers as relationship manager for AXA France, head of corporate sales for pension and savings schemes and institutional sales manager.