Zurich-headquartered 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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