Julius Baer adds Matthews, promotes Lee

Mark Matthews, Julius Baer

Julius Baer has strengthened its investment solutions group in Asia with two senior appointments. Mark Matthews joins the boutique Swiss private bank as head of research for Asia, while Lee Boon Keng has been appointed to sole head of the group.

Matthews, who started at Julius Baer on Monday, brings to his new role more than 18 years of experience in the financial sector. He was most recently at Macquarie where he was an Asia strategist working for Michael Kurtz, who heads pan-Asian strategy for Macquarie. Matthews used to publish reports under the title “Guanxi”. A source...