The Qatari-owned wealth manager is snapping up a private banker from Edmond de Rothschild for a push with Asian clients.

Quintet's Swiss arm is hiring Jing Zhang Brogle as its market head for Asian international clients, from February 1, it said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. Zhang Brogle, a 46-year-old Swiss-Chinese private banker, was most recently Edmond de Rothschild's global market manager for the same region.

Her hire is the first sign of the Luxembourg-based wealth manager's ambitions for Switzerland, where it launched in May after snapping up Bank am Bellevue. The Swiss arm, run by Emmanuel Fievet, is out to hire prominent names, as finews.com reported.

Quintet is benefiting from Rothschild's pulling out of Hong Kong, a business Brogle also – briefly – oversaw. Zhang Brogle, who worked as a wealth manager at Vontobel and UBS before joining Rothschild in 2015, will hire private bankers in Switzerland for the Asia market, Quintet said.