Manulife Asset Management, the global asset management arm of Manulife Financial Corp., has named Christos Tsaravas as managing director and head of distribution for Switzerland.

Tsaravas will be based in the Zurich office. He joins the company from Deutsche Asset Management, where he served as director and head of institutional clients for Switzerland.

Manulife AM LLC recently obtained its securities registration from FINMA, Switzerland's independent financial-markets regulator, enabling operations as a regulated distributor of collective investment funds in the country.