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Discerning investors value access to unique opportunities that can achieve strong results. Pictet has used alternative strategies to meet the expectations of these investors for decades.

Overview
We are one of Europe’s leading specialists and have been investing in, managing and advising on alternative investment portfolios since 1989.
  • 200+

    Experts
  • 48 BN USD

    In assets
  • 12

    Investment offices
  • 1989

    First Private Equity investment
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Pioneers

We recognised early on that responsibly implemented private assets and hedge fund solutions would offer clients a long-term advantage. We launched our first private equity investment in 1989 and have since added private real estate, private debt and hedge funds.

Why Pictet

As a private company, we understand private markets and believe in their potential to generate returns and support innovative businesses shaping the future. Our attention to detail, our independence and our long-term approach have brought Pictet’s distinctive hallmark of stability to these areas of investing.

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Hedge Funds
We offer our clients access to attractive, uncorrelated income streams. Our keen understanding of risk factors aims to give our investors the comfort of downside protection.

Why Pictet

Hedge fund strategies fit comfortably with the active management approach that is at the centre of the Pictet investment philosophy. Our clients enjoy the many benefits of hedge funds combined with our conservative approach to investment. This meticulous attitude to risk is reflected in our track record, loss ratio and longevity. We attract exceptional talent: mature individuals seeking involvement in a long term franchise complemented by a structured approach to investment talent incubation and constant refinement of our proven manager selection process.

 

Multi Manager

Pictet employs a rigorous and systematic approach to external manager selection. Our multi manager offering provides access to a wide array of strategies from proven hedge fund names: this enables us to deliver our clients, bespoke solutions from across the risk-return spectrum. We have wide and deep experience in manager selection and we take pride in worldwide partnerships built over 30 years. Our hedge fund manager selection process is exacting and our approach to due diligence has proven its effectiveness. Our portfolio construction comes from an acute risk awareness that is deeply embedded in our values.

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Direct: Single Strategy & Multi Strategy

Pictet offers clients the opportunity to diversify their portfolios by investing in strategies that rely less on the market to generate performance; this is accomplished either through low correlation to markets, or with managed directional exposure.

Our single strategy offering has been developed over the past 15 years and calls on the strengths of our in-house investment talent. Each strategy is managed by a highly focused and well-supported portfolio team. Our single strategy spans market neutral and directional equities as well as relative value and event-driven fixed income. We have demonstrated uncommon strength in defensive strategies. 

Pictet’s multi strategy products have been skillfully designed to identify diverse sources of alpha. Our multi strategy hedge funds offer an attractive combination of performance and diversification. We harness the power of compounding while prioritising capital preservation during periods of market stress. We believe in active investment and high conviction in this less constrained investment environment, yet a robust risk management framework – including a conservative approach to leverage – is the foundation of all our investment strategies and management teams. We are highly vigilant on correlation between strategies.
 

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Private Assets

For investors with long-term horizons, private assets offer the potential for enhanced returns. These investors appreciate the focus on business fundamentals and the ability to invest in innovative companies that are shaping the future responsibly.

At Pictet, we entered private markets long before their investment potential became so sought after. Having started with private equity in the late eighties, we have since diversified into private real estate and private debt. We partnered with companies and many of today’s leaders in this space early on, and we continue to invest in exclusive opportunities for innovation. Over the years we have demonstrated our depth of expertise with strong results across a range of strategies, accessible directly through co-investment or as multi-manager solutions.

 

Private Equity

We take advantage of the latent value in the private companies soon to drive the global economy. Partnering with our manager network and through our direct offering, we prefer companies with enduring fundamentals, having proprietary, defensible assets and exhibiting singular qualities.

Why Pictet

Pictet offers its clients attractive opportunities to invest in private companies – directly and through a long-standing manager network. 

We cover all stages of the corporate cycle – venture capital, growth, buyout and turnaround. We look to realise maximum value through a patient, long term approach that allows time and space for innovation to take hold. We complement this where appropriate through our specialists’ intervention, initiating and accelerating company transformation. Our long-term vision is consistent with our pursuit of value and with our commitment to sustainability and responsible investing.

We evaluate opportunities with a cold, analytical eye – it is this objectivity that gives us confidence in our high level of conviction. Our identification with entrepreneurial talent comes from our status as a privately-owned partnership that has moved and changed to preserve its relevance over more than two centuries.

Multi Manager

Our record is based on a disciplined and systematic approach to manager selection, always seeking to improve our high-quality investment universe that is global in nature. We ensure active representation through our seats across many advisory boards.

Our clients enjoy the benefits of relationships that go back for more than three decades, yet we constantly build on our manager intelligence database and seek new investment frontiers. Our due diligence process is exacting: we deconstruct headline performance for maximum transparency, isolating true value creation that is derived from revenue growth, operational improvements and profitability.

Co-investments

Partnering with established General Partners on select deals offers the ability to deploy capital at a faster rate while also providing risk mitigation and portfolio diversification.

Since 1989 our investment specialists have cultivated valuable relationships with the world’s leading private equity firms. This dialogue with our extensive network of General Partners gives Pictet clients preferential access to consistent deal flow of the widest scope and the highest quality.

Thematic

The Pictet name is synonymous with a pioneering approach to thematic investing. We understand that private companies are the engines of innovation across critical areas such as technology, healthcare and the environment. We align our investment approach with a firm commitment to sustainable principles. Our industry specialists apply their deep sectoral expertise to uncover attractive investment ideas. They harness their knowledge to a rigorous selection process, sourcing new opportunities and the managers who identify, resource and support the private companies destined to drive the global economy.

Direct

Direct investment brings longer-term exposure to quality private businesses in attractive markets with secular growth trends – and yet offering significant transformation potential, harnessed to the power of compounding.

Pictet’s history, culture and extensive network make us a natural partner for entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses and management teams that share our values of long-term responsible partnership. With our network comes the ability to source attractive deals – often off-market – applying a combined sectoral and geographic approach. Our focused investment targets European middle-market businesses in three defined verticals: business services, education and industrials. We have a long-term mindset, working alongside management in order to take quality businesses to the next level.

Real Estate

We identify compelling investment opportunities through our extensive network and local presence in key European markets. We generate value through our experienced investment teams, applying our rigorous investment philosophy and processes. Our heritage and client-centric approach make us a trusted partner.

Why Pictet

Pictet is a real estate partner of choice thanks to our deep, long-standing fiduciary credentials and close alignment of interests with our investors. We have a distinct investment philosophy that delivers uncorrelated sources of alpha: high conviction investments with a thematic focus and a prudent risk-management approach.  

Our offering spans an array of strategies for income and capital growth, delivered through direct and multi manager solutions, as well as co-investment opportunities. We are at the forefront of sustainability-driven investment in real estate.

Direct

Pictet’s network, the cumulative experience of our people and their industry relationships over more than a century, allow us to provide investors direct access to opportunities through our Core Plus and Value-add strategies. We have assembled an exceptional team from top Private Equity Real Estate firms, present locally in six European countries. This gives us early and preferential access to deal prospects. 

We are active investors. We create value in our portfolio assets independently of market conditions and leveraging long-term, thematic investment drivers such as technology, sustainability, and flexibility. The European built environment faces substantial environmental challenges and changing regulation: this puts sustainability at the heart of our investment process, bringing rich potential for creation of added value.

Multi Manager

Providing diversified exposure with stable risk-adjusted returns, our multi manager platform is an ideal solution for investors. We construct diversified portfolios by blending fund vintages, geographies and strategies which include Defensive Plays, Asset Value Growth and Special Situations. 

Our managers range from the smaller niche players to the world’s largest real estate managers. We believe smaller managers with a local, hands-on approach are well placed to generate alpha through their sourcing and execution capabilities, in harmony with our high level of conviction.

Co-investments

Pictet’s long history as a trusted, long-term partner gives our clients access to attractive high conviction co-investment deals – at speed – through our established and extensive industry network. These opportunities may be housed as single assets or through a portfolio of assets, or alternatively sit within the context of our direct or multi manager Real Estate offerings. All our co-investment propositions are consistent with our usual high-conviction, thematic-driven investment philosophy. Target sectors and locations may vary depending on the opportunity set and market environment.

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Private Debt

We locate and deliver outstanding private credit opportunities in companies with solid fundamentals that can benefit from our partnership approach and from managers with a proven, principled investment process.

Why Pictet

Pictet’s longstanding credit heritage and deep expertise provides our clients with unique private credit opportunities via direct lending and manager selection.

Meticulous credit selection and strict due diligence lies at the heart of our approach. We prioritise credit fundamentals with precise asset selectivity, coupled with careful portfolio construction. 

Direct

Direct investment in private debt gives Pictet clients access to an investment philosophy based on first-principles credit selection and careful portfolio construction with a focus on Europe’s attractive lower middle market. Our extensive network and local expertise deliver a range of proprietary off-market deals that offer attractive risk-return profiles.

We believe in strong partnership, providing bespoke, flexible capital structures to our investee companies. Our partnership approach ensures corporates and private equity sponsors can rely on our deep sectoral expertise, speed of execution and an ability to structure solutions that drive operational, strategic and ESG improvements. We are long-term partners for growth in the businesses in which we invest, usually as the sole lender, offering strategic and operational guidance. Our strong ESG ethos is consistent with a long-term view on sustainability and its inherent place in value creation.

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Multi Manager

Our global multi manager strategy provides an effective solution for those seeking diversification across managers, regions and vintages while allowing us to retain an opportunistic approach to portfolio construction. We seek to generate returns from a diverse mix of sub-strategies that covers the entire spectrum of alternative credit such as direct lending, corporate special situations, restructuring and distressed. Investing across vintages allows investors to build all-weather exposure to the private debt asset class and benefit from asset allocation over a credit cycle. 

Understanding each manager’s investment process, idea generation and approach to due diligence when underwriting credit risk is fundamental to the manager selection process. We invest in proven managers who have stood the test of time across different cycles and whose track records pass extensive scrutiny.

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