Bank Sarasin & Co has named Damien Ng as managing director and head of investment consulting at its Singaporean subsidiary, Bank Sarasin-Rabo (Asia).

Ng joins the company from Credit Suisse, where he was most recently managing director for investment consulting. Prior to that, he led the investment advisory group at Merrill Lynch Asset Management in Singapore and was senior vice president at The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan.

In his new role he reports directly to Enid Yip, the bank's chief executive officer, Asia.

BSC HK is the first branch of Bank Sarasin & Cie outside Switzerland and is its second booking centre in Asia.