About us

Pictet Asset Management is an independent asset manager, overseeing over USD 209 billion (CHF 198 billion/EUR 186 billion/GBP 169 billion as at 30th June 2020) for our clients across a range of equity, fixed income, alternative and multi asset products. We provide specialist investment services through segregated accounts and investment funds to some of the world’s largest pension funds, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, intermediaries and their clients. 

Our business is investment led and centered around a long-term perspective with a dedication to client service. Our aim is to be the investment partner of choice to our clients. This means giving them our undivided attention, offering pioneering strategies and being committed to excellence.

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Our mission is to build lasting partnerships with our clients by exceeding their expectations for investment performance and service.

– Laurent Ramsey, Managing Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer

At Pictet Asset Management, our ambition is to attract and retain highly talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, and help them to realise their personal and professional goals. We aim to build an entrepreneurial and collegiate atmosphere, allowing ideas to mature, experience to accumulate and our people to reach their full potential.

We have over 1,000 employees of which over a third are investment professionals. Our people are located in 18 offices across the world, close to the markets in which we invest and the clients we serve.

We believe in active management with a strong focus on valuation across equity, credit, sovereign debt and currencies.

As a multi-boutique firm we embrace a variety of investment styles, allowing our teams to implement the best approach for their respective asset classes. Our investment managers operate independently to encourage innovation and accountability, while consistent implementation of their investment philosophy and process is regularly monitored.

We expect our investment teams to think unconventionally and encourage active dialogue across regions and capital structures. We manage risk as much as portfolios, with risk management an integral part of the decision making process. Our investment managers are able to focus on their primary task of making investment decisions and are supported by a team of product specialists.

Our size, global reach and focused product range differentiates us from our competitors.

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We always favour clients’ interests over asset growth and do not hesitate to close strategies to protect alpha generation for our investors.

– Sébastien Eisinger, Managing Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer

Our investment resources are focused around our core capabilities:

From the 1990s onwards, our innovative thematic equity strategies have looked beyond benchmarks to offer investors the opportunity to capitalise on the most powerful trends shaping our world.

By leveraging our core strengths of active and prudent portfolio management, our absolute return strategies seek to optimise investor returns whilst meeting their risk tolerance.

Pictet has been championing diversified portfolios since 1967*. Building on this expertise, our Multi Asset teams deploy outlook-driven and tactical allocation to generate attractive returns over the course of an economic cycle.

As early entrants into emerging markets we combine deep market knowledge with a disciplined approach to risk. We have created a diverse range of bond, equity and absolute return strategies that aim to help investors capitalise on the dynamism of the emerging world.

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Institutions that have chosen to go for quality, not quantity or growth at all costs, are today the best.

– Renaud de Planta, Managing Partner

We are convinced that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations can help us make better long-term investment decisions for our clients.

For decades, sustainability has been central to our way of thinking. Since the Pictet Group was founded in 1805, we have aimed to ensure the prosperity of our clients over the long term. In doing so, we have instinctively considered the interests of future generations.

Pictet Asset Management believes in responsible capitalism and takes an enlarged view of the economy and its interactions with civil society and the natural environment.

Consistent with our fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of our clients and our adherence to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), we are committed to integrating material ESG criteria in our investment processes and ownership practices with a view to enhance returns and/or mitigate risks. 

We also aim to embed ESG in our risk management and reporting tools in order to maintain high standards of transparency and accountability.

To support our employees in their personal and professional development, we have partnered with external organisations. They are connected to areas of focus for us, such as supporting employees at different stages of their careers and lives, driving charitable engagement and ensuring inclusive recruitment.

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To read more about our recent actions in the field of diversity & inclusion, click here.

We are part of the Pictet Group, founded in Geneva in 1805, which also specialises in Wealth Management, Alternative Advisors and Asset Services. Privately owned and managed by seven partners, the Pictet Group has more than 4,500 employees in 29 offices around the world. In over 210 years there have only been 43 managing partners, ensuring the continuity and stability of the business. We aim to provide individuals and institutions with the highest possible investment quality and service.

For more information about the Pictet Group, please see our Annual Report.