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Pictet Creates Research Institute
The Swiss private bank has announced that it is launching an institute to probe and research the kind of subjects that carry investment implications for the long run.
Pictet, the Swiss
private bank, is setting up the Pictet Research Institute to
research topics with long-term investment implications.
Based in Geneva, the institute will engage in topics ranging from
macro- and geopolitics to portfolio implementation solutions.
The institute, which will have its own dedicated staff of
PhD-level researchers, will also collaborate with select
academics and think tanks, as well as drawing on the Pictet
Group’s internal experts, the bank said in a statement
yesterday.
Maria Vassalou, formerly from Goldman Sachs Asset Management,
will head the institute, and report to Sébastien Eisinger,
managing partner at Pictet.
At Goldmans, Vassalou was co-chief investment officer of
multi-asset solutions. She holds a PhD in financial economics
from the London Business School.
“The rapidly changing economic and market environment requires us
to further strengthen our capabilities in analysing existing and
developing global themes and trends,” Eisinger said.
