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SERVICES FOR CLIENTS AND INSTITUTIONS

We offer the following services which may be subject to separate mandates.

ALM

  • Asset and liability management
  • Analysis of your risk tolerance
  • Dynamic simulations of assets and liabilities
    • Projection of degree of coverage and flows
    • Probability of under-coverage, level of conditional sub-coverage
  • Study of other allocations

INVESTMENT ADVISORY

  • Portfolio audit
    • Strategy analysis
    • Manager analysis
    • Compliance with investment guidelines
    • Comparison of managers with their competitors
    • Fee analysis
    • Risk exposure
  • Definition of strategic allocation
    • Proprietary tool available to our clients
    • Definition of strategic allocation and tactical ranges based on investment objectives
      • Risk capacity and tolerance, and return requirement
      • ALM results
  • Simulation of return and portfolio risks
    • Simulation of performance distribution
      • Expected evolution
      • Pessimistic Scenarios (VaR)
      • Probability of loss, level of conditional loss
    • Simulation of portfolio evolution based on:
      • Economic scenarios
      • Scenarios of historical or hypothetical markets (stress tests)
    • Interactive visualisation tools
  • Selection of financial providers
    • Selection of managers
      • Access to many databases
      • Proprietary selection tools
      • Comprehensive comparison of managers with their peers
    • Quantitative and qualitative scoring
  • Selection of custodian banks
    • Analysis of the organization
    • Analysis of operations
    • Review of reporting qualities
  • Environmental experience and extensive knowledge of service providers

SPECIALIZED MANAGEMENT

  • Active management or core-satellite
  • Bond management in Swiss francs
  • International bond management
  • Indirect real estate

DIVERSIFIED MANAGEMENT  

  • Based on a predefined strategic allocation
  • Active management in different asset classes or core-satellite approach
  • Tactical management
  • Volatility and liquidity profiles

RISK MANAGEMENT AND CONTROLLING

  • Risk factor analysis
    • Implementation of a dynamic tool for monitoring and decomposing portfolio risks
    • Stress tests
    • Integration simulation of new managers or asset classes
  • Risk analysis
    • Simulation and risk decomposition
    • Estimation of the fluctuation reserve
  • Investment reporting and controlling
    • Customized reporting based on your structure and investments
    • Portfolio summary and comments
    • Full information consolidation
    • Accounting for financial instruments
    • Ad-hoc reporting available (Private Equity, etc.)
    • Benchmarking to Swiss pension funds

GOVERNANCE

  • Education 
    • Education for foundation boards and investment committees
    • Participation in institutional seminars
    • Interventions in academic programs
  • Policies 
    • Implementing investment policies
    • Investment governance
    • Implementing internal control system
  • Portfolio management
    • Tactical management
    • Rebalancing proposals
    • Compliance with investment guidelines