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Manulife Asset Management bolsters Asia team with UBS hire

Manulife Asset Management has hired Emmanuel Bucaille from UBS as senior managing director, head of wealth solutions, wealth and asset management, Asia.

In this newly-created position, based in Hong Kong, he will have regional oversight in formulating, articulating and implementing wealth solutions as well as product strategies for Manulife. 

He will also spearhead the effort to more closely align Manulife Asset Management’s wealth solutions to customers’ actual financial objectives, and to further harness Manulife’s private asset capabilities as part of those solutions.

Bucaille’s remit also includes manager selection, performance monitoring and asset manager reviews for Manulife’s managed architecture platform. 

AUM for the firm’s wealth and asset management business in Asia now exceeds USD117 billion. 

Bucaille has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, with the majority of his career spent with UBS in Europe and Asia. 

Hi most recent position was head of investment products and services operating office, UBS Wealth Management Europe.