Indosuez Adds To Hong Kong, Singapore Teams

Tom Burroughes

26 July 2021

, the wealth brand of Crédit Agricole, has appointed four senior figures in Singapore and Hong Kong, adding to a senior hire a week before.

The following people have been appointed:

-- Bernard Mueller as head of risk for Asia and for the Singapore branch;
-- Kristin Chung as head of risk for Hong Kong SAR branch;
-- Eric Chan as senior director, investment advisory for Hong Kong SAR branch; and
-- Anthony Cheng as senior director, investment advisory for Hong Kong SAR Branch.

Mueller is relocating from Geneva where he was head of credit and risk wealth management for Indosuez in Switzerland.

Chung is taking on the role of head of risk for Indosuez’s Hong Kong SAR Branch, reporting to Meuller. Prior to Indosuez, Chung was the head of credit risk in HSBC Private Bank in Hong Kong SAR, where she led the credit and product risk team, covering the Hong Kong SAR booking centre while supporting the private banking centres in Singapore and Taiwan. With over 20 years of experience, she brings expertise from leading various credit and risk teams in large international financial institutions.

Chan has substantial expertise providing investment advisory and portfolio management advice to high worth clients across multi-asset classes. Prior to joining Indosuez, he was director, investment advisor at Julius Baer.

Cheng is experienced in private banking, especially advisory in structured products to high net worth clients globally. Before Indosuez, Cheng worked at Deutsche Bank, private wealth, Hong Kong SAR, where he was responsible for driving the internal product launch of cross asset structured products.

As reported a week before, Indosuez Wealth Management appointed Alfred Low as head of the north Asia market and strategic partnerships for the bank’s Singapore branch, starting 1 September this year and based in Singapore. The role was a new one for the firm. Prior to this, Low worked in senior management and advisory roles covering North Asia clients at HSBC Private Bank, Credit Suisse Private Bank, UBS Wealth Management and Citigroup Private Bank. Before banking, Low worked in a variety of capacities for the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore.