The latest senior wealth management moves and appointments in the Asia-Pacific market.

Deutsche Bank
The international private banking arm of Deutsche Bank has made two appointments in its Asia-Pacific discretionary portfolio management arm.

Stefanie Holtze-Jen has been named as head of DPM for Asia-Pacific, and Harsh Agarwal has been made DPM head of fixed income in Asia.

Based in Singapore, Holtze-Jen will assume responsibility for DPM, Asia-Pacific, in addition to her role as chief investment officer, Asia-Pacific. She will report to Tuan Huynh, global head of discretionary portfolio management, in addition to her CIO reporting line.

Agarwal, who will report to Holtze-Jen, joined Deutsche Bank in 2013 and has more than 15 years of experience in the fixed income markets, spanning local currency credits, investment grade, high yield, distressed debt, and convertible bonds. He was most recently co-head of APAC credit desk strategy, and a senior member of the global credit trading team in the investment bank. 

Manulife Investment Management
Manulife Investment Management has appointed Jessie Liu as head of transactions and portfolio management, real estate, private markets, Asia. In her new role, she will report to Marc Feliciano, global head of real estate, private markets, and will join Manulife Investment Management’s global real estate leadership team. 

Since joining Manulife Investment Management in 2019, Liu has led and completed multiple investment transactions in key Asia markets across different property types including logistics, commercial and multi-family. She will still be based in Hong Kong. 

Prior to joining Manulife, Liu served in senior roles at China Resources Land Private Equity and Yue Yuen Industrial where she was responsible for real estate investments and strategies. She also worked in the real estate team of the Blackstone Group and at Merrill Lynch Real Estate Principal Investments before working in-house.