Nikko Asset Management has hired Stefanie Drews as global head of institutional marketing and proposition, as the Tokyo-based firm seeks to expand its institutional business globally.

Drews will be responsible for developing the firm’s institutional product, marketing and managing cross-border specialist groups around the world.

“We feel very fortunate to have Drews join Nikko Asset Management as we take our institutional business to the next level,” said Hideo Abe, executive vice chairman of Nikko Asset Management.

“We are very confident that her contributions will greatly improve the customer experience for institutional clients.”

Drews was most recently global head of key clients and family offices at Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in London.
Before that, Drews was a managing director in Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management business.