The international wealth management arm of has appointed Vijay Solomon (pictured below) as managing director, based in Singapore, according to an internal memo seen by this news service.
Vijay Solomon
Solomon is joining from Julius Baer, where he was group head for global non-resident Indian and emerging markets. He reports to Brajesh Jha, group head of Southeast Asia and Middle East.at the Japan-headquartered group.
“Solomon will focus on further developing our growing South East Asia and Middle East franchise as he builds his team of client coverage relationship managers,” the memo said. He will work alongside the investment products and advisory solutions, lending and credit solutions, business management and corporate partner teams.
Before Julius Baer, Solomon worked at Credit Suisse, Societe Generale, DBS Private Bank, ICICI Bank and GE Capital in Hong Kong, Singapore and India.
His hire follows a series of senior appointments at the business this year. In September, this news service reported that Ray Sharma-Ong had joined Nomura International Wealth Management as managing director, chief investment officer and head of discretionary portfolio management, moving from Aberdeen Investments, where he was deputy global head of multi-asset bespoke solutions. In February, the unit appointed Etienne Broussaud, formerly of UBS, as managing director to lead its Southeast Asia and Middle East lending and credit solutions team.
Nomura repositioned its wealth management business outside Japan as International Wealth Management in September 2020. Since then, it has focused on Greater China, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East, booking clients from Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai.