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Bjoern Jesch is Chief Executive Officer of DWS CH AG, Global Head of Multi Asset & Solutions, CIO EMEA based in Zurich. He rejoined the company in 2020 with 26 years of industry experience.
Person of the Month January 2022
In her role as Deputy Head of Investments and Member of the Global Executive Board, is Christel Rendu de Lint in charge of the Sustainable Equities Boutique and the Wealth Management Investment & Thematics Boutique.
Person of the Month December 2021
Together with his team, René Nicolodi is responsible for all fundamental and rule-based liquid equity strategies as well as the private equity business.
Person of the Month October 2021
Person of the Month September 2021
SG Value Partners ist ein auf Deep Value-Aktienanlagen spezialisierter, unabhängiger Asset Manager. Geführt wird das erfahrene Investment-Team von Sven Sommer und Gregor Trachsel.
Person of the Month August 2021
Thomas Hirschi is a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. He has been in charge of the Asset Management division since 2020.
Roman Aschwanden became CEO of Swiss Fund Data AG, a joint venture between the Asset Management Association Switzerland and SIX Swiss Exchange, at the start of April 2020.
Person of the Month May 2021
Régis Martin is Group Deputy CEO at Unigestion, an independent asset manager offering investors around the world innovative, bespoke solutions for private equity, equities, and liquid alternative investments.
Person of the Month April 2021
Anastassios Frangulidis is Head of Multi Asset Switzerland – Zurich at Pictet Asset Management. He is responsible for multi-asset investment solutions in the German-speaking region.
Person of the Month March 2021
Christian Kürsteiner heads up the asset management unit of Bellecapital, a wealth and asset manager with CHF 3.5 billion in assets under management and 41 employees in Zurich and London. He is also responsible for acquiring and serving institutional clients.
Person of the Month February 2021
Andrea Quapp is Investment Director and Head of GAM Investment Solutions Continental Europe. She has worked as a portfolio manager for more than 30 years, including almost two decades with GAM Investments, an active asset manager with its origins in Julius Baer Asset Management.
Person of the Month January 2021
Vincent Duval has worked at UBS Asset Management in Zurich since 2005 and is currently Head Swiss Balanced Strategies. He is a member of the global Investment Committee and responsible for the performance of Swiss balanced multi-asset funds and mandates.
Person of the Month December 2020
Dr. Gero Jung, Chief Economist at Mirabaud Asset Management and member of the Investment Committee, is responsible for macroeconomic analysis and studies.
Person of the Month November 2020
Nils Ossenbrink is in charge of Products & Distribution at Twelve Capital, an asset manager focused on the insurance sector. It primarily serves institutional clients from its offices in Zurich, London, and Munich and manages assets totaling around CHF 4 billion across all of the sector’s asset classes.
Person of the Month October 2020
Carmine Orlacchio is founding partner and CIO of OLZ, a Swiss asset management company pursuing a risk-based investment approach. While “Nino” focuses on optimal diversification in his day-to-day business, he personally went all-in to get the firm up and running.
Person of the Month September 2020
Stefan Angele has been Head of Asset Management at Luzerner Kantonalbank since 2018 and is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of LUKB Expert Fondsleitung AG. He has a degree in economics and more than 25 years’ experience in asset management, having held executive functions at GAM and Julius Baer Asset Management as well as management functions at Zürcher Kantonalbank.
Person of the Month August 2020
Patrick Zbinden is Global Co-Head of EFG Asset Management and CEO of EFGAM Switzerland. The division operates across five jurisdictions and manages over CHF 22 billion of assets for both private and institutional clients through discretionary mandates and the New Capital funds franchise.
Person of the Month July 2020
Jürg Fausch is an economist and has been lecturing at the Institute of Financial Services Zug IFZ, part of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, since September 2017. In this role, he is also co-author and project manager of the annual Asset Management Study published in conjunction with the Asset Management Platform Switzerland.
Person of the Month June 2020
Christèle Clémence is Deputy Head of Wholesales Switzerland and Liechtenstein at RobecoSAM. Before joining the firm in 2017, she worked at UBS Wealth Management for five years, first as a growth specialist in business development and then as a relationship manager. Prior to that, Christèle spent six years at Bank Syz on the Sales and Business Development team.
Christian Gast is CEO of Systematic Investment Management Ltd (SIMAG), a joint venture of Credit Suisse Asset Management and the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). He was previously a member of the Executive Committee and Head of iShares and Index Investing at BlackRock Asset Management Switzerland Limited.
Person of the Month April 2020
Christian Trixl leitet die Schweizer Amundi-Niederlassung in Zürich und Genf. Zuvor war er mehrere Jahre bei Columbia Threadneedle in Zürich als Länderchef tätig. Vorab unterhielten wir uns mit ihm über die Branche als solches, wobei Christian Trixl die Ansicht vertrat, dass die Konsolidierung der Asset Management-Industrie noch nicht abgeschlossen sei. Die gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen werden diese noch beschleunigen, wobei es sicherlich Gewinner geben werde.
Person of the Month March 2020
Erika Kessler acts as CEO of Swiss Fund Data AG in Zurich since 2011. She was previously in charge of the “Transparency in the Fund Market” (TIF) project at SIX Group. Erika has over 20 years’ experience in the fund business. Swiss Fund Data is a non-profit company providing the Swiss fund industry with a wide range of services supported by its extensive database.
Person of the Month February 2020
Michael Sabbatini is a strategy and capital markets analyst at Capital Group with global quantitative and asset allocation research responsibilities. He has 22 years of investment experience, all with Capital Group. Michael has global quantitative and asset allocation research responsibilities in Capital’s Quantitative Research and Analytics team and, oversees the active asset allocation process for institutional global and US balanced mandates.
Person of the Month January 2020
Yves Guntern joined the alternative investment firm Millennium in 2017 as CEO for Switzerland. Yves is in charge of Millennium’s portfolio management activities in Geneva, Pfaeffikon, Zug and Zurich. Yves Guntern is also a member of the Alternative Investment Council (AIC), a SFAMA expert group on alternative investments.
Person of the Month December 2019
Frederick Widl is Head of Real Assets at AXA Investment Managers (Switzerland) and a member of executive management. Under his leadership, AXA IM manages a real estate portfolio in Switzerland worth CHF 16 billion. AXA’s most recent projects include Steinbock, a multifunctional development in Chur; Hello Lenzburg, an apartment block with a modular wooden structure that won the NZZ Trend-Radar prize; and the visionary new Haus zum Falken by the architect Santiago Calatrava.
Person of the Month November 2019
Sven Württemberger has been responsible for sales of passive products in Switzerland and Israel since 2017. He is also in charge of sales of active products to private banks. He has an MBA in international finance from the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of St. Gallen as well as a BA in finance from Bristol Business School in the UK. Sven lives in Zurich with his wife and two sons, aged four and seven.
Person of the Month October 2019
Nicolas Campiche joined Pictet Alternative Advisors in 2000 and was appointed CEO in 2003. He began his career in 1991 with the United Nations Pension Funds in New York before moving to Credit Suisse Group, where he rose to the rank of portfolio manager. Pictet & Cie hired him in the same function in 1994, and he later assumed responsibility for the bank’s UK private clients in London.
Person of the Month September 2019
Stephan Kamps has been Head of Portfolio Management in Baloise’s Asset Management division since 2017. He began his career in asset management with Winterthur Insurance and later ran his own asset management business. He now heads teams responsible for the Baloise insurance group’s own-account investments as well as all external clients’ investments in day-to-day business. Stephan is a member of the executive management of Baloise Asset Management.
Person of the Month August 2019
Dr Claudia Emele is Chief Investment Officer at Avadis Vorsorge AG and CEO of the Avadis Investment Foundations. Avadis specialises in investment solutions for Swiss pension funds and manages more than CHF 17 billion in total. After completing her PhD in economics, Claudia worked as Managing Director of Ortec Finance (Switzerland) AG and Executive Board member in charge of marketing and sales at Complementa AG before joining Avadis.
Person of the Month July 2019
Patrick Sege is Head of Swiss Intermediary and Sustainable & Thematic Sales at Vontobel Asset Management AG in Zurich. Before joining Vontobel, Patrick gained a doctorate in economics and worked at the US asset management firm Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) as Country Head for Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein with responsibility for business development and client relationship management.
Dominik Brunner, a specialist in alternative investments has worked at Schroder Investment Management Switzerland since June 2018. Prior to that, he spent almost 20 years at UBS. Dominik’s job involves familiarising clients with the fast-growing range of alternative investments and helping them to find ways to incorporate these into their portfolios. His focus is on private assets such as private equity and hedge funds. He is married and has one son.
Person of the Month May 2019
Urs Ramseier is a founding partner as well as CEO and CIO of Twelve Capital, which specialises in the insurance sector. The company invests in all of the sector’s asset classes: cat bonds, private insurance-linked securities and insurers’ bonds, private debt and equities. Before founding Twelve Capital in 2010, Urs worked for Horizon21 building up its ILS business.
Person of the Month April 2019
Mirjam Staub-Bisang is the head of BlackRock’s Swiss business. She took up her post in November 2018 and also acts as Senior Advisor for Sustainable Investing. Mirjam has around 20 years’ financial experience, primarily in asset management.
Person of the Month March 2019
In his role as CEO of the Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals AZEK and the Swiss Financial Analysts Association SFAA, Andreas Jacobs is responsible for aligning the organisation with the changing financial market. Andreas has been in charge of AZEK/SFAA since the start of 2017 and has been operating as Chairman of the independent asset and wealth manager OLZ since 2010.
Person of the Month February 2019
Christoph Schumacher ist seit Juni 2017 Christoph Schumacher has been Head of Global Real Estate at Credit Suisse Asset Management since June 2017. Before that, he held management positions at various real estate investment firms. He has amassed over 23 years’ experience in the real estate, finance, legal and consulting fields since studying law in Freiburg, Geneva and Bonn and gaining his doctorate from the University of Münster.
Person of the Month January 2019
Stefan Bichsel, a member of Banque Cantonale Vaudoise’s Executive Board, runs BCV’s Asset Management & Trading Division since May 2009. Mr. Bichsel makes no secret of what institutional clients are looking for in their asset managers: competence, reliability, and stability. Stability in an institutional asset manager is measured not solely by its solid balance sheet, but also by the loyalty of its employees.
Person of the Month December 2018
Charlotte Bänninger ist Head of Fixed-IncomCharlotte Bänninger is Head of Fixed Income at UBS Asset Management. She is responsible for investments totalling more than CHF 260 billion in global fixed-income and money market strategies, runs the Swiss fixed-income business and is a member of UBS Asset Management Switzerland’s executive management. With 31 years’ experience in the investment business, Charlotte played a key role in building up the bank’s CHF bond platform.
Person of the Month November 2018
Paul Schibli is an undeniable expert within the Swiss equities arena, having worked in portfolio management for a variety of renowned firms over his 30-years career. He is currently enjoying success as head of the Swiss Equities team at Mirabaud Asset Management. In addition to his responsibility as Head of Swiss Equities, Paul is directly responsible for the management of one of Mirabaud Asset Management’s flagship investment solutions: Mirabaud – Equities Swiss Small and Mid.
Person of the Month October 2018
Nathalie von Niederhaeusern, Managing Director, is a member of the BlackRock Private Equity Partners group within BlackRock’s alternative investments business. She has over 15 years’ experience in private equity and corporate finance.
Person of the Month September 2018
Stefano Zoffoli heads the Multi Asset Balanced team, which is in charge of managing traditional, mixed institutional mandates and funds. As Chief Strategist, he is additionally responsible for determining and communicating the Swisscanto Invest investment strategy. Born in the canton of Ticino, he holds a Master of Economics degree from the University of Zurich and began his career as an economist at Credit Suisse from 1992 to 1996.
Person of the Month August 2018
Philipp Bärtschi is Head of Investment Management at Bank J. Safra Sarasin. Since 2016 he is responsible for all investment teams within the Asset Management of the company. Philipp Bärtschi started working for Bank J. Safra Sarasin in 2006. Before that, he worked at Threadneedle Asset Management in London and Zurich Financial Services in Zurich.
Person of the Month July 2018
Francesco Franzoni is SFI Professor of Finance at the Università della Svizzera italiana. He joined SFI in 2007 and has held an SFI Senior Chair since 2012. Professor Franzoni obtained his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Franzoni’s research has been published in the top finance journals worldwide and has appeared in the international press. He is a regular speaker at leading academic conferences in finance.
Person of the Month June 2018
Cédric is Head of Advisory at Fundana, an alternative investment boutique based in Geneva. The firm is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and has an impressive record of success. Its expertise lies in sourcing and selecting hedge fund talent. Clients include pension funds as well as family offices and independent asset managers.
Person of the Month May 2018
Larry Hatheway joined GAM Holding AG as Group Chief Economist in 2015 and was appointed to the Group Management Board in May 2016. Since September 2016, he has been Group Head of Investment Solutions and Group Chief Economist, overseeing GAM’s private clients, charities, multi-asset and alternative investment solutions teams.
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