Credit Suisse said on Monday that John Woods has joined the Swiss bank as chief investment officer Asia Pacific for private banking and wealth management, based in Hong Kong.
As chief investment officer Asia-Pacific, Woods is responsible for developing Credit Suisse Private Banking and Wealth Management’s regional investment views across and within asset classes, as well as contributing to the development of consistent discretionary and advisory strategies for the bank’s private and institutional clients in Asia Pacific.
He is also a member of the bank’s Global Investment Committee.
He reports to Nannette Hechler-Fayd’herbe, global head of investment strategy.
Woods brings 25 years’ experience in equity, fixed income and currency markets in Asia and the UK.
He joined Credit Suisse from Citi Investment Management where he was the head of fixed-income Asia-Pacific. Before that, he served as the chief investment strategist for Asia Pacific at Citi Private Bank.
In this capacity, he was a member of the Global Investment Committee, responsible for multi asset allocation of advisory and discretionary mandates, as well as for developing the Asian investment strategy, asset allocation and client management.
