Bank Julius Baer has appointed Rajesh Manwani as head of markets and advisory solutions Asia with immediate effect.

Based in Singapore, he will be leading the markets and advisory solutions team. He will report functionally to Peter Gerlach, head of markets and Philipp Rickenbacher, head of advisory solutions, and regionally to Jimmy Lee, head of Asia-Pacific.

Manwani has spent over 19 years in the industry, and took on global, regional and country roles in UBS, Standard Chartered and the last nine years in Credit Suisse, where he was managing director, head of investment solutions & products APAC.

He oversaw a broad range of functions including strategy and research, discretionary and advisory mandates, managed investments, capital market products, and wealth planning services. Manwani succeeds Luigi Vignola, who has taken on a new role as global head of structured products in Switzerland.