(22 June 2006 – Australia) Credit Suisse has appointed Keith Ince as executive vice chairman and head of asset management in Australia.Ince will oversee the bank’s asset management business in Australia during a six month transition to becoming permanent head of Asset Management for Australia.
He established Portfolio Partners in 1994 and remained as joint chief executive after the firm was acquired by Norwich Union. Ince was also director and co-founder of County NatWest Investment Management (now Invesco), and also Wardley Investment Management (now HSBC Asset Management).
Ince is a director of Everest Capital and Everest Babcock & Brown Alternative Investment Management, and has several private company directorships.
He said Credit Suisse was an extremely dynamic organisation that had set ambitious targets for its divisions and businesses across the globe.