Vontobel AM hires to widen client focus in Japan
The Swiss fund firm is actively targeting Japanese banks and insurers for the first time and generally increasing its focus on that market, deputy Asia-Pacific head Jürg Fritschi tells AsianInvestor.
Switzerland’s Vontobel Asset Management aims to broaden its client focus to Japan’s $7.4 trillion bank and insurer segment with the hire of a salesman, Naohiko Tabei, from PineBridge Investments. Juerg Fritschi, deputy Asia-Pacific head at Vontobel AM, will also now focus solely on Japan, whereas until last month his remit had also included Australia.
The fund house, whose $1 billion in Japan-sourced assets is in global and emerging-market equities, now hopes to attract money to …
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