Weekly roundup of people news, Jan 12

The fund house is laying off most of its investment and operations staff in Hong Kong and Singapore in a post-merger restructuring, while keeping teams intact elsewhere in the region.

The property investor’s Singapore-based co-head of global real estate securities has left the US firm, which is understood to be moving its Asia team to a new location in the Lion City.

Credit Suisse promotes new two senior roles and RMs; Philip Tso leaves Willis Towers Watson; Eastspring Investments installs alts CIO; BlackRock adds trio in Australia; JLL hires Asia fund advisory chief; Vanguard adds to China team; UBP hires investment adviser for South Asia; Franklin Templeton appoints Australia MD; Cryptocurrency firm Monaco names senior VP; RHTLaw Taylor Wessing creates private wealth head role.

Deutsche AM hires new APAC head; Rockspring poaches regional chief from KIC; Northern Trust appoints Japan president; JP Morgan hires Singapore client advisor: Aprea elects new chairman; Hermes adds senior economist; Simmons & Simmons gains Beijing partner; BNY Mellon adds RM head for depositary receipts; Leonteq gains new CEO, board members.