The role sits under the firm's investments and wealth solutions division for its wealth and personal banking business. The holder of the position is based in Hong Kong.

HSBC has appointed Mathieu Forcioli as the global and Asia-Pacific head of alternatives, under the bank's investments and wealth solutions division for its wealth and personal banking business.

Forcioli, who will be based in Hong Kong, will join HSBC on 1 September from Antarctica Asset Management in Hong Kong where he is the head of Antarctica Private, responsible for the private markets offering globally.

Before this, Forcioli set up and grew the Asia operations of Moonfare. Before that, he served in a variety of leadership roles at UBS, including leadership of the wealth management private markets distribution team and the institutional investments group for APAC. In the earlier part of his career, he held equity capital markets, structuring and derivatives positions in the investment banking divisions of UBS, Merrill Lynch and Calyon.

In this new role, Forcioli will report to Jan-Marc Fergg, global head of ESG and managed solutions, IWS and Stefan Lecher, regional head of IWS, Asia-Pacific.