A top Swiss banker and veteran of Morgan Stanley's private bank has been named partner of J. Stern & Co., finews.ch can reveal. She moves to the London-based family office after a short stint with independent wealth manager Sound Capital in Zurich.
Sabina von Arx was a managing director at Morgan Stanley in Switzerland for 22 years. She left when the Swiss unit was bought by rival J. Safra Sarasin late in 2014.
She surfaced briefly at Sound Capital (story in German), a 4 billion Swiss franc wealth manager founded by several former Clariden Leu bankers in 2012 and formerly known as Metropol Partners.
Now, von Arx has joined J. Stern as a partner, a family office with ties in banking going back more than two centuries which re-financed the then-kingdom of Portugal several times over in the 19th century.
Family Ties
As a portfolio and client relationship manager, her experience is in asset management and foreign exchange trading, including hedging strategies, for corporates, entrepreneurs, private individuals, families, and large family offices, according to her Stern biography.
She has also worked in the Klaus Jacobs family office and as a portfolio manager for Rothschild Bank. A spokesman for J. Stern didn't respond to a request for comment.
The family office, which is led by former Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse banker Jerome Stern, is mostly known in Switzerland for its opposition of Swiss industrial firm Sika to rival French firm Saint-Gobain.
