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Fifty Years of Discovering Talents

1964
The birth of a new vision

In 1964, Beat Notz and Christian Stucki, two truly independent and visionary minds, imagined a new wealth management concept.

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1967
Michael Steinhardt

Michael Steinhardt is one of Wall Street’s legendary traders.

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1970
George Soros

In 1970, the young and then relatively unknown George Soros had a hard time finding investors to launch his first fund. So he travelled to Switzerland and met Beat Notz and Christian Stucki. Together with a few brave investors, they decided to invest in what would later become the world-famous Quantum Fund.

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1974
Haussmann Holdings

In 1974, we pioneered a whole new industry when we co-founded Haussmann Holdings, one of the very first fund of hedge funds.

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1979
Asia Fund

In the years following the 1973 oil crisis, most developed economies were undergoing a long-lasting recession. At the same time, the emerging Asian Tigers were exporting their manufactured goods worldwide and enjoying exceptionally high growth rates.

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1979
Fukuo Shigeta

At the same time, thanks to the Japanese Economic Miracle, Japan was rapidly becoming the world’s second largest economy.

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1980
Julian Robertson

Known as the “Wizard of Wall Street,” Julian Robertson is one of the pioneers of modern hedge fund management and accurately predicted the Dotcom Bubble.

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1980
Paul Tudor Jones II

After trading cotton bales at the New York Cotton Exchange, then working as a broker, Paul Tudor Jones launched his Tudor fund in 1980.

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1987
Lynx

As the less efficient markets of Europe provided good investment opportunities, in 1987 we decided to look for European hedge funds. At the time, the only place where you could find talented managers was London. But the British traders trying to set up their own hedge funds had a hard time finding investors in Switzerland.

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1989
Louis Moore Bacon

Louis Moore Bacon is one of Wall Street’s macro trading legends. After learning the ropes trading commodities while studying at Columbia, he worked as a commodities and currencies trader, before launching his Moore Capital fund in 1989.

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1994
John Armitage

In 1994, John Armitage co-founded the Egerton Long/Short Equity fund with William Bollinger.

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1994
Aruna

In the 90s, India initiated a deep economic liberalisation program, opening the doors of the world’s sixth largest economy to foreign investment.

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1997
Paul Marshall – Ian Wace

London-based fund managers Paul Marshall and Ian Wace launched their Marshall Wace fund in 1997. Specialised in global Long/Short Equity, they are one of Europe’s foremost hedge fund managers. In 2017, they became famous well outside the financial community when they made EUR 5 million shorting Juventus Football Club stock.

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2011
Asia – the new frontier

As Asian economies have become mature, with domestic consumption replacing exports as the driver of growth, their financial markets have also transformed into modern exchanges, adopting the full range of investment tools and techniques used by alternative managers.

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2015
Fusion

As the digital revolution forces most business sectors to reinvent themselves, we know that the traditional Swiss banking model is no longer sheltered from change.

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  • 1964 The birth
  • 1967 Michael Steinhardt
  • 1970 George Soros
  • 1974 Haussmann Holdings
  • 1979 Asia Fund
  • 1979 Fukuo Shigeta
  • 1980 Julian Robertson
  • 1980 Paul Tudor Jones II
  • 1987 Lynx
  • 1989 Louis Moore Bacon
  • 1994 John Armitage
  • 1994 Aruna
  • 1997 Paul Marshall – Ian Wace
  • 2011 Asia
  • 2015 Fusion
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Executive Committee

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Cédric Dingens, CAIA Head of Investment Solutions & Institutional Clients, Member of the Executive Committee
Patrick Hamon COO, Member of the Executive Committee
Antonio Mira CFO, Member of the Executive Committee
Grégoire Notz Board Executive Director, Member of the Executive Committee
Damiano Paternó Castello Head of Wealth Management, Member of the Executive Committee
Angel Sanz, CFA CIO, Head of Asset Management, Member of the Executive Committee
Cédric Dingens, CAIA Head of Investment Solutions & Institutional Clients, Member of the Executive Committee

Cédric Dingens oversees the Investment Solutions & Alternative Investments at Notz Stucki. He is a member of the Portfolio Management & Hedge Fund Selection team and the Asset Allocation Committee.

After starting his career in Banque du Luxembourg (BIL) in 2001, Cédric joined Notz Stucki in Luxembourg in 2002 as a portfolio manager. He has developed the internal quantitative risk management frameowrk before being appointed Head of risk management in Geneva in 2010, and then being promoted to his current position in 2016.

He holds a degree in quantitative finance from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Nancy (France) and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

The best way to win is to avoid to lose.
Patrick Hamon COO, Member of the Executive Committee

Patrick Hamon joined Notz Stucki in 2017 as Group Chief Operating Officer, in charge of technology and operations.

Patrick started his career in 1987 with JP Morgan, where he worked for 18 years in Paris, Frankfurt and London, holding several senior management positions in infrastructure and control, business and team management, restructuring programs and new business development projects. In 2005, Patrick founded a business management consultancy firm servicing hedge funds, financial services start-ups and asset management companies.

He is a graduate of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University.

Operations should run like Swiss clockwork: smoothly, reliably and accurately.
Antonio Mira CFO, Member of the Executive Committee

Antonio Mira joined Notz Stucki in 2006 as Group Chief Financial Officer. He heads the corporate functions and is involved in coordinating and implementing the decisions of the Executive Committee.

An experienced bank auditor, Antonio started his career in 1995 with Arthur Andersen, where he worked for some 7 years before joining Ernst & Young in 2002 as a Senior Manager.

Antonio is a Swiss chartered accountant and a Business graduate of Lausanne University (HEC).

The challenge is to have the right agenda to orient the business, its transformation and the appropriate use of data.
Grégoire Notz Board Executive Director, Member of the Executive Committee

Grégoire Notz is a Board member of the Notz Stucki Group since 2008 and a member of the group Executive Committee since 2017.

Before joining the company in 1997, he held various positions at Permal Asset Management in New York, SBC Warburg in Zurich and Banco Santander in New York. He also founded the Fante Group, Arowana Asset Management, Pterois SA, and sits on the Board of Notz (Metall) Holding.

Grégoire holds a BS in Finance and MIS from Northeastern University in Boston (USA) and is a graduate of Harvard Business School OPM (USA).

 

There are just a few incredibly talented funds managers. The challenge is to find them.
Damiano Paternó Castello Head of Wealth Management, Member of the Executive Committee

Damiano Paternó Castello joined Notz Stucki in 2009 to become a Partner and Director. He now heads the wealth management business line.

Prior to joining the firm, he was an executive director at Morgan Stanley for over a decade. Before that, he was a portfolio manager for high-net worth clients at JP Morgan and HSBC Guyerzeller Bank.

He holds a Political Sciences degree from the Lausanne University.

Our business is all about establishing strong relationships with our clients.
Angel Sanz, CFA CIO, Head of Asset Management, Member of the Executive Committee

Angel Sanz has over 25 years of investment experience and heads the Group’s Multi-Asset Solutions & Asset Allocation department.

Prior to joining Notz Stucki in 2012, he held three CIO positions at Bankia, BBVA Asset Management and M&B Capital. Before starting his financial career in 1991, he worked for 4 years as a software engineer at AT&T Bell Labs (USA).

Angel holds an MBA from Lehigh University (USA) and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Valladolid (Spain), for which he received a national academic-achievement award.

We must never forget that behind a portfolio’s figures and statistics, there is always an individual or a family.
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