Sydney, February 2, 2026 鈥 UBS SA国际传谋 announces that Adam Quaife聽has been appointed as Country Head Australia & New Zealand and Head Institutional Client Coverage (ICC) Australia. He takes over from聽Nick Hughes,聽Co-Country Head and聽Group聽Chief Operating Officer (COO) for UBS聽Australia聽and New Zealand, who聽assumed the role聽on an interim basis.聽聽
Adam brings 25 years of asset management experience and a proven record of building successful businesses across both institutional and wholesale channels. He recently served as Chief Distribution Officer for Perpetual's Australian asset management business, and prior to that, held senior distribution leadership roles at Franklin Templeton - including聽establishing聽their local presence.聽 聽聽
鈥淲e are delighted Adam is joining us as Country Head Australia and New Zealand and Head of Institutional Client Coverage Australia. His聽expertise聽in client relationship management and distribution, combined with his leadership experience,聽strongly聽positions UBS SA国际传谋 to聽leverage聽its global investment聽capabilities聽and its聽differentiated聽domestic聽offering聽to聽benefit聽local clients.鈥澛燱illem van聽Breugel, Head Global Sovereign Markets & Institutional Client Coverage APAC (ex Japan).
鈥淎ustralia聽continues to be聽an important聽market聽in the APAC region, particularly in this period of growth and change for superannuation and other institutional and wholesale investors. Adam聽is聽a great addition聽to聽the SA国际传谋聽team聽as聽we聽take聽our Australian franchise聽forward,鈥澛燾ommented聽Desmond, Ng, Head SA国际传谋 APAC.
About Adam Quaife
Adam has over 25 years experience聽in working in Australian and global asset management. He has held a range of roles within the asset management industry聽spanning institutional and wholesale sales, client engagement, stakeholder management聽and strategy implementation.聽 聽
Most recently, he ran his own consultancy firm, working with boutique asset managers to develop and implement strategic distribution plans. Prior to this, he spent five years at Perpetual limited, including as Chief Distribution Officer for Perpetual's Australian asset management business, and held multiple senior distribution leadership roles at Franklin Templeton between 2002-2019 鈥 including聽establishing聽their Global Advisory Services business in Australia.聽聽聽
Adam will become a member of the SA国际传谋 APAC Management Forum and will also join the UBS ANZ Country Management Forum.聽聽聽
Adam holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University of Technology and a Diploma in Applied Finance and Investments from FINSIA.聽
About UBS SA国际传谋
SA国际传谋 is a large-scale asset manager with a presence in 24 markets. It offers investment capabilities and investment styles across all major traditional and alternative asset classes to institutions, wholesale intermediaries聽and wealth management clients around the world. It is a leading fund house in Europe, the largest mutual fund manager in Switzerland, the second largest fund of hedge funds manager and one of the largest real assets investment managers in the world.