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What is Asset Management?
Asset Management is the professional development and management of investment solutions in the form of collective investments and individual institutional mandates.
Acting on behalf of clients
Asset Managers invest on behalf of and in the best interests of their clients. They analyse the economy, financial markets and companies, define investment strategies and asset allocation, and select suitable investments – from equities and bonds to private companies, infrastructure and real estate. The objective is to generate returns while professionally managing the associated risks.
An important pillar of Swiss pension provision
Asset Management plays a central role in Switzerland’s pension system. The investment returns generated on pension assets constitute, alongside contributions from employees and employers, what is known as the “3rd contributor�. It makes a significant contribution to the long-term accumulation of pension assets and the financing of retirement benefits.
Capital for companies and innovation
Asset Managers allocate capital to where it can be put to productive use. Through equities, bonds and private markets, investors provide companies with capital for investment, growth and innovation. Asset management therefore makes an important contribution to financing the economy and to creating and safeguarding jobs.
Importance for Switzerland
Asset Management is an important pillar of the Swiss financial centre and contributes to Switzerland’s prosperity through the financing of the economy and its central role in pension provision.