Credit Suisse bolsters ETF team in Germany and Austria

Credit Suisse has appointed Levente Kulcsar and Annabelle Wegner to its ETF team in Germany and Austria, as part of the firm’s plan to expand its ETF platform across Europe.

Kulcsar joins Credit Suisse as a director and as head of ETFs for Germany and Austria. He previously worked at Commerzbank as head of institutional sales for ComStage ETF.

Prior to this, Kulcsar was at Fortis Bank in Luxembourg as a director of business development.

Wegner, who joined Credit Suisse in May as a director, has been appointed ETF specialist head for institutional clients in Germany and Austria.

She previously worked in structured product sales for Germany and Austria at RBS/ABN Amro and has occupied similar roles at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank.

Credit Suisse manages €63bn in index mandates and has CHF12bn (€8.4bn) in ETF assets under management in Switzerland.

The firm has 31 ETFs in Germany, listed on Xetra.