ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss private bank Julius Baer (>> Julius Bär Gruppe) said on Friday it has appointed Oliver Bartholet as chief risk officer, replacing Bernhard Hodler who will serve as deputy to Chief Executive Boris Collardi.

Bartholet, currently head of legal group regulatory and governance at UBS (>> UBS Group), will take the new role effective April 1, 2018, the Zurich-based bank said in a statement.

The appointment marks Julius Baer's third executive board change this year after it announced replacements for Latin America head Gustavo Raitzin and Jan Bielinski as chief communications officer.

(Reporting by Joshua Franklin, editing by John Revill)

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