New Office
Vontobel Expands Germany Footprint
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The firm has announced that it is opening a new centre in Düsseldorf and said it continues to seek advisors and teams. Vontobel has had a presence in Germany for more than 70 years.
Zurich-headquartered Vontobel will be opening a
new branch in Düsseldorf this year to serve high net worth
private clients and family offices across North Rhine-Westphalia
in Germany.
Private clients in Germany have been supported through branches
in Munich and Hamburg. In Frankfurt, teams provide institutional
clients with a wide range of international investment solutions.
In addition, Frankfurt manages Vontobel’s European structured
products business outside Switzerland. Today, around 20
investment professionals in Munich and Hamburg, together with
additional specialists in Zurich, serve clients domiciled in
Germany. Vontobel has operated in Germany for more than seven
decades.
“With this step, we are consistently pursuing our strategy of
investing selectively in growth. Germany is a key market for us
in Europe,” Christel Rendu de Lint and Georg Schubiger, co-CEOs
of Vontobel, said. “North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the
country’s most important and dynamic regions, with a large number
of medium-sized and large companies in crafts and industry as
well as trade and services.”
Jean-Pierre Stillhart, head of private clients for Germany,
Austria and Switzerland, and member of the executive management
board of Bank Vontobel AG, added: “As an internationally active
Swiss wealth manager, we offer our clients in Germany an
additional perspective and diversification opportunity. We have
now begun the search for a suitable location for our new team in
Düsseldorf. We aim to be available to our clients as centrally in
the city as possible. We also continue to look out for additional
talented advisors or teams who fit our long-term-oriented culture
and conservative risk appetite.”
By the end of 2025, private clients had entrusted more than €130
billion assets under management. In Germany, clients can keep
their assets either in Switzerland or in Germany.
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