Ivo Furrer, member of the Corporate Executive Board and CEO Switzerland of Swiss Life Group until the end of March 2017, has been nominated for election to the Board of Directors of Julius Baer Group Ltd. at the Annual General Meeting on 12 April 2017, for which the invitation has been published today.

Zurich, 20 March 2017 - Ivo Furrer will be proposed for the election to the Board of Directors of Julius Baer Group Ltd. at the Annual General Meeting on 12 April 2017. In addition, he is expected to become member of the Board of Directors of Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. During his remarkable career in the financial and insurance sector, Ivo Furrer has held several important management positions at, amongst others, Winterthur Insurance, Credit Suisse Group, Zurich Financial Services and Swiss Life Group, both internationally as well as in Switzerland.

'We are very pleased that Ivo Furrer has agreed to stand for election to our Board. The Board of Directors will highly benefit from his vast experience of the international financial and insurance sector. My colleagues and I look forward to a fruitful collaboration with Ivo', commented Daniel J. Sauter, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

All current members of the Board of Directors stand for re-election for another one-year term.

The documents regarding the Annual General Meeting of Julius Baer Group Ltd. (including the CV of Ivo Furrer) are available online at www.juliusbaer.com/agm.

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