Multi-family office Stonehage Group has announced the opening of an office in Zurich and the appointment of Ewald Scherrer and Tanja Jegger. The move is aimed at strengthening Stonehage’s presence in the Swiss market and follows the recent appointment of Frederic Carbonnier as a director with the firm’s eighty strong team in Neuchatel; he joined last year from UBS Wealth Management. The new office will offer private client services to ultra high net worth families. There will be four staff at first, with the firm predicting ten employees by year end. Mr Scherrer, who will head the office, joins from HSBC Guyerzeller in Zurich where he was a first vice president. He will be responsible for managing existing client relationships and new business development. Ms Jegger joins from Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, where she was a vice president and will focus on developing the firm’s philanthropic offering through the activities of the Stonehage Charitable Trust as well as advising clients on their philanthropic activities. Sonia Synal and Liviana Oezcebi, who worked with Mr Scherrer at HSBC, will also be joining.