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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Simon Evan-Cook |Fergus Horsfall
Former BlueOrchard CEO Philipp Mueller has been appointed chief executive of Zug-based global impact investment firm Blue Earth Capital. He will assume his duties in October.
Mueller joined BlueOrchard in 2018 as a managing director and head of investment solutions; he became CEO in 2020.
BlueOrchard announced last week that Michael Wehrle, who joined the firm as head of investment solutions in 2021, is taking over as CEO. Already have an account?
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Simon Evan-Cook |Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
Vigama Capital has welcomed Fausto Zanetton and Christophe Guillemot to its board, the latter to serve as chair.
Guillemot is currently chair at Mirabaud, a strategic adviser at Investa Solutions and a financial adviser at AI Nexus Healthcare. Before this, he spent nine years at HSBC Private Banking, where he was global CFO. He was also global CFO of JP Morgan Private Bank.
Zenetton is founder and CEO of Tifosy Capital & Advisory.
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1 week ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
The head of private banking in the Broye region for Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), Hubert Joye, is set to retire early, the bank confirmed to Citywire.
The bank has advertised for his replacement.
Joye has been the head of private banking for this region for nearly seven years and the overall regional head for the past six years. Already have an account? Do you personally advise on or manage investments for clients?
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2 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
Simone Stebler has taken over as the Zurich office leader at recruitment firm Egon Zehnder.
Dominik Schaller is passing the baton as Zurich office head, but remains country leader for Switzerland.
Schaller stated on LinkedIn: ‘With a strong focus on the financial services industry, particularly banking, as well as legal work across industries, Simone has led our Swiss Financial Services Practice to an all-time high over the past six years.’ Already have an account?
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3 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Fergus Horsfall |Savannah Cobb-Thomas
Jumping out of planes terrified Mark Haefele.
Long before joining UBS, he bailed out of plans to become a US Army paratrooper – and felt ashamed.
‘Later I realised that being a great quitter can be a world-class skill too,’ he writes in his new book, The New Rules of Investing. Already have an account? Do you personally advise on or manage investments for clients?
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3 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
Marcus Slöör is to join Zuger Kantonalbank as head of wealth management and as an executive board member on 1 June.
He will be responsible for the private banking, wealth services and investment office of the bank.
He most recently worked as a managing director in wealth management at Credit Suisse in Zurich. He held a range of senior roles including market head UK international. Already have an account? Do you personally advise on or manage investments for clients?
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3 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
Citywire Switzerland will reveal the winners of its 2025 fund management awards soon. There are awards for both individual portfolio managers and fund management groups, based on our quantitative data. We will publish the list of nominees across a range of equity and fixed income asset classes next week. Reach out to Hanna Pabst at [email protected] if you want more information. The methodology for the awards can be found below.
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3 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
Distribution specialist Harrington Cooper has appointed Gil Platteau as head of Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Monaco.
He joined at the start of April after three years as head of Switzerland at Rothschild & Co Asset Management.
He previously worked for Northern Trust Switzerland and Mercer Global Investments Europe. Already have an account? Do you personally advise on or manage investments for clients?
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3 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Savannah Cobb-Thomas |Fergus Horsfall
Zug-based Deep Field Capital has launched several funds as part of a new tie-up with Quantamental Capital.
The new investment vehicles provide access to Quantamental’s flagship Equity Alpha strategy, a systematic and market-neutral US cash equities strategy.
Quantamental focuses on developing and managing its trading strategies, while letting the firms it affiliates handle everything else, CIO Siegfried Spitzer told Citywire. Already have an account?
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3 weeks ago | 
citywire.com | Fergus Horsfall |Savannah Cobb-Thomas
Finma has announced a restructuring of its organisation, effective from today.
The regulator has merged the markets and asset management divisions and created a new cross-divisional function for ‘integrated risk expertise’.
