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QUAERO Capital has appointed Serge Ledermann as a member of its Board of directors. Backed with more than 35 years’ experience in the financial industry – in investment research, asset management and commercial activities – Serge Ledermann is a well-known public figure both in Switzerland and abroad.

Working as an independent advisor and an independent director for family offices, pension funds, foundations and asset managers Serge Ledermann has held several managerial positions in asset management. In particular, he was a member of the Executive Committee and Head of Asset Management at J. Safra Sarasin, as well as Deputy CEO and Head of Investment of Retraites Populaires in Lausanne. Prior to that, he was Partner at Lombard Odier and Union Bancaire Privée Gestion Institutionnelle.

Serge Ledermann is a graduate of the HEC School of the University of Lausanne and of the International School for Banking Studies of Geneva. He followed several management and graduate trainings at IMD and ACAD in Switzerland. He chaired the Swiss Association of Financial Analysts and Asset Managers (SFAA) from 1997 to 2001.

He is often quoted on the Swiss media for his expert opinion on the markets or the trends in the financial services industry. He sits on various boards of directors, such as Schroder Investment Management (Switzerland) and the Swiss Triathlon Federation.

Cristofer Gelli, Chairman of QUAERO Capital said “We are delighted to have a leading figure such as Serge Ledermann join our Board of directors. His breadth of experience and extended international contact network in the financial world will be very useful assets to pursue our expansion and successfully face the challenges facing the Swiss asset management sector”.

Serge Ledermann added “I am excited to join QUAERO Capital’s Board. Indeed, besides plain-vanilla products produced by the asset management giants, there is a strong need for a specialist boutique such as QUAERO, whose very distinctive strategies and conviction-driven investment style have delivered superior results.”

Media release

QUAERO Capital SA was named “Best Group over 3 years” in the “Equity- Small Company” category of the 2017 Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards Switzerland.

Awarded during an exclusive ceremony on 31 January 2017 in Zurich, this prestigious prize rewards the good overall performance achieved over the last 3 years by QUAERO’s investment funds..

The overall performance was represented by the weighted average decile ranking of its respective asset class results. Large and small fund groups are distinguished separately.

« As an independent asset management boutique, we are particularly proud of this award, which recognizes the results achieved not by one fund in particular but by all our strategies overall. Our first place in this ranking carried out by one of the world specialists in fund analysis is all the more gratifying as the level of asset management expertise is particularly high in Switzerland.  It represents a recognition of our investment style, which brings together independently minded investment managers, who rely on original research to provide high-conviction, actively-managed strategies. » said Jean Keller, CEO of QUAERO Capital SA.