Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management has hired two financial advisers for its Netherlands office, only two months after poaching three advisers from Fortis' Dutch office.

Stefan Huls joins from Schretlen & Co where he was was a senior banker with responsibility for the wealth management of private clients in the east of the Netherlands. He has 11 years of private banking experience, gained at organisations including Staal Bankiers and LandesBank Berlin.