Here is a roundup of moves among wealth management senior figures during August. While traditionally a vacation month in some regions, a number of high-profile changes were reported.

The global chief executive of HSBC’s $500 billion asset management arm, Sridhar Chandrasekharan, moved from London to Hong Kong as the British banking group looks to capitalise on growth opportunities in Asia. HSBC said Chandrasekharan continued to serve as the division's global chief and will still oversee the 30 locations in which it operates.

Morningstar appointed Lorraine Tan as director of equity research in Asia. Tan brings 20 years' experience in equity research and led Standard and Poor’s equity research business in Asia from 2000 to 2014. She took on the newly-created role to lead 11 equity analysts in Hong Kong and Shenzhen and oversee Morningstar’s Asian equity research, which includes company reports, industry and sector research, along with qualitative ratings. She is based in Singapore.

Eric Chong, a senior private banker, left Citi Private Bank. His future plans are as yet unclear.

RBC Global Asset Management hired Ken Tam, formerly of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, to lead its business in the Asia-Pacific region. Tam left his position as Deutsche AWM's managing director and head of global client group, Asia-Pacific ex-Japan, earlier this year. He previously spent 19 years at JP Morgan Asset Management, where he served as managing director and head of North Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Tam replaced Adam Matthews, who stays with the business until at least the end of 2015. He oversaw Asia-Pacific operations, excluding BlueBay Asset Management. He reports to Clive Brown, chief executive and managing director of RBC GAM International.

LGT, the Liechtenstein-headquartered private bank operating in regions including Asia, has brought over a former UBS banker to its non-resident India client group. The relationship manager was Jaya Jayaraman, who is located in in Hong Kong. Previously, she was an NRI banker at UBS. She has also worked at Deutsche Bank and Société Générale.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission reappointed two executive directors for another three-year term. Brian Ho and Keith Lui are executive directors of the SFC's corporate finance division and supervision of markets division respectively. They took on their positions back in 2006.

Credit Suisse appointed Abhishek Mehrotra, previously a director at HSBC Private Bank from 2010 to July 2015. Before that, he was a vice president for commercial banking at HSBC from 2008 to 2010. He also attended the Asian Institute of Management, and held the role of associate vice president at HSBC India from 2004 to 2006.

Nomura hired Harry Ng from Julius Baer to head its trust business and wealth planning in Asia, excluding Japan. Ng, based in Singapore, assumed the new role of head of Nomura Trust Company and head of wealth planning strategy and solutions, Asia excluding Japan. Reporting to the firm's head of wealth management in Asia, excluding Japan, Nobuhiro Sano, he manages Nomura Trust Company’s client relationships and estate administration activities, as well as leading the trustee services business. Ng joined from his position as North Asia head of wealth planning at Julius Baer in Singapore. He was also Asia-Pacific wealth planning team head at Merrill Lynch’s wealth management unit in Singapore prior to the division’s acquisition by Julius Baer. 

Standard Chartered appointed Enoch Tan as managing director and regional head, UHNW clients, Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Based in Singapore, Tan is responsible for leading the bank’s initiatives specific to UHNW clients in the ASEAN region.

He reports to Stephen Richards-Evans, head, global UHNW clients, and locally to Peter Kok, regional head, ASEAN, private banking clients. Tan was most recently managing director, head of client solutions, Asia, at Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to that he was an investment banker at NM Rothschild & Sons as well as UBS Investment Bank.

Willis Group Holdings, the global risk advisory, re/insurance broking, and human capital and benefits firm, appointed a number of senior figures to roles across the world – including Asia - for its wealth planning division, Willis Global Wealth Solutions. Craig Ellis was appointed chief executive, GWS Singapore. Ellis joined from Old Mutual International where he served as head of region and CEO of Singapore and Southeast Asia. Ellis reports to Odd Haavik, who now focuses on his regional role as CEO, Asia and Europe for GWS.

Santiago Lombardozzi was appointed to the global position of head of products and solutions for Wills GWS. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts. In his global role, he reports to Yves Guélat, global CEO of GWS. Lombardozzi has 13 years of experience in the high net worth planning field and joins Willis from International Planning Group. GWS has also appointed two new directors for relationship management: Nikki Koh is channel manager for GWS Singapore and Benny Tsoi is channel manager for GWS Hong Kong.

One of the luminaries of Singapore’s banking industry, Lee Seng Wee, the former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, passed away at the age of 85. He had been a board member of OCBC – owners of the private bank, Bank of Singapore – for five decades and was reappointed in April this year.

Former Credit Suisse banker Jimmy Lee joined Julius Baer, becoming head of Asia-Pacific and member of the firm’s executive board. Lee took over from Dr Thomas Meier, who wanted to return to Switzerland and continues as non-executive vice chairman for wealth management, reporting to Boris Collardi, chief executive. In his new role, Meier took over a number of key roles at group level. 

Having worked at Credit Suisse Group for a total of 11 years, Lee was most recently market group head for Hong Kong at that firm; prior to this, Lee acted as CEO Asia of Clariden Leu from 2009 to 2012 and headed the integration of the bank into Credit Suisse in the Asia-Pacific region in 2012/13. Before this, Lee was head of the private wealth management arm for Southeast Asia / South Asia at Deutsche Bank for five years and also held a number of other top management positions in the financial industry in Asia.

In Meier’s case, his change of role came after he helped to build and led Julius Baer’s business in Asia-Pacific for ten years and managed the integration of Merrill Lynch’s International Wealth Management business into Julius Baer’s local operations.

Also at Julius Baer, a team head for the bank in Asia, Saurabh Gupta, left his role as executive director. Gupta has been based in Singapore. For the past two months, according to his LinkedIn profile, Gupta had been managing director of M! Capital Ventures Pte in Singapore, of which he is also co-founder. Gupta's other recent roles included working at ANZ, where he was head of strategic business development from February 2010 to July of that year, based in Singapore. After that, he was senior director and market head in Singapore for Julius Baer.

Standard Chartered appointed three senior figures to beef up its compliance teams in different regions, including a former US military intelligence officer. The appointments were to the firm's financial crime compliance team, which is run by John Cusack, the global head of FCC.

Steve Munro, head of sanctions compliance, is based in New York and reports to Cusack. He joined from GE Capital where he was global anti-money laundering leader, a role which includes responsibility for sanctions. Previously Munro held senior financial crime positions with Societé Generale and served as deputy chief counsel for the US Treasury's office of foreign assets control and as a US military intelligence officer.

Carmel Speers was named as head of FCC for the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), based in Dubai. Speers joined from JP Morgan in the UK and has more than 25 years of professional experience. She reports to Jeremy Trevis, regional head of legal and compliance for MENAP, and to David Howes, deputy head of FCC.

David Clark was named as head of FCC surveillance analysis and academy. Like Munro, he joins from GE Capital where he was head of international financial crime compliance. Previously, he held senior financial crime positions with Barclays, ABN Amro and HM Revenue Customs & Excise. He is based in London, reporting to Markus Schulz, head of FCC controls.

In addition, Duncan Wales joined as deputy general counsel. He is based in London and assists David Fein, group general counsel, in managing the group’s legal affairs. Wales joined from ICAP, the inter-dealer brokerage firm, where he served as group general counsel since 2008. Prior to that position, he occupied a number of senior roles within ICAP, including director of government affairs, general counsel for EMEA and Asia and senior counsel to the electronic broking division.

Prior to its acquisition by ICAP in 2003, Wales was director of legal affairs at BrokerTec. He began his career as a solicitor at Clifford Chance and served as in-house counsel at ING Barings.

AXA Investment Managers hired Kelly NG as director, private bank, Asia. Based in Singapore, Kelly is responsible for boosting AXA IM’s coverage of private banks and wealth managers in Asia. He reports to the company's head of sales and marketing for Asia, Terence Lam. He joined from Permal Singapore where he was vice president, business development, covering South Asia from 2011. Before this, he held various business development and marketing roles at Citi Singapore.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors appointed one of its senior members, Tony Ho, as managing director of RICS East Asia. Ho is responsible for overseeing RICS' business development and the recognition of RICS’ standards and qualifications for the East Asia region, covering Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, South Korea and Macau. A graduate of Indiana State University, Ho has been working in real estate and asset valuation consultation for close to two decades. He was based in Shanghai during his tenure as the deputy director of RICS North Asia last year.

A prominent network of former top-level policymakers from the worlds of diplomacy, defence, security and business appointed William Zarit, former minister for commercial affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, as a senior counsellor at the firm. He is based in the Chinese capital. The Cohen Group’s range of coverage areas includes financial services and investment. Comprised of more than 60 professionals, and with offices in Washington, London, Beijing, Tianjin, New Delhi, and Dubai, it provides clients with insights and assistance to better understand and shape the business, political, legal, regulatory, and media environments in which they operate. It is affiliated to international law firm DLA Piper.

Professional Investment Advisory Services appointed Winson Yap to the newly-created role of chief distribution officer. Yap, who brought 20 years of life insurance and financial advisory experience, most recently worked at Tokio Marine Life Insurance as chief insurance officer.

Fidelity Japanese Values, part of Fidelity Worldwide Investment, appointed Nicholas Price as portfolio manager of the company. Price joined Fidelity's Tokyo office over 20 years ago. In his new Tokyo-based role, he will assume full responsibility of the company's portfolio in September, taking over from Shinji Higaki.

Nikko Asset Management promoted Eleanor Seet to head of Asia ex-Japan and Yasuaki Ogiwara to president of its Hong Kong business. Based in Singapore, Seet joined the firm in 2011 and helped to grow its footprint in the region through its suite of Asian fixed income, Asian equity and global multi-asset capabilites. Ogiwara, based in Hong Kong, joined Nikko in April and previously served as president of Nomura Asset Management in Hong Kong. Before this, he worked at Nomura Securities, where he headed up sales and business development in markets including Taiwan and Europe.

Edmond de Rothschild appointed Jing Zhang Brogle to the role of chief executive for its Hong Kong branch. Her new post is the same position that had been vacated by the departure of Monique Chan, who has left the firm. Brogle reports to Emmanuel Fievet, head of international private banking at Edmond de Rothschild Group. Most recently, Brogle founded a multi-family office business, which Edmond de Rothschild said would be integrated into its business.