Quest - managing innovative, quantitative strategies since 1999
Our Quest strategies are built for clients seeking a quantitative investment approach that eliminates human biases while still benefiting from human oversight. We offer evidence-based and scalable products and solutions by leveraging on the power of data & technology to deliver sustainable investment performance.
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Innovative research
Advanced technology
Customised solutions
Quantitative discipline
We manage USD 13.7bn of AUM1 across an established and innovative range of quantitative strategies and solutions.
Our Quantitative Equities & Solutions Team consists of 20 professionals with an average industry experience of 15+ years2. They have a skill-set spanning model building, feature engineering, AI/ML, risk management, portfolio construction and implementation.
Did you know?
80%
of our Quest investment team hold a PhD
Source: Pictet Asset Management, as of 01.04.2024
Our flagship strategies
We believe that over shorter time-horizons, investor behaviour rather than company fundamentals is the main driver of company share price returns. We think this is best captured by an approach that uses artificial intelligence to process a wide range of higher frequency data. However, reversion to company fundamentals occurs over longer horizons, which is this time captured using traditional factors.
We therefore have two investment engines that operate their approaches accordingly: Quest AI-Driven, which is monthly rebalanced, offering an enhanced index return profile; and Quest Sustainable, which has a wider tracking error target to focus on longer term company fundamentals and deliver a through cycle quality/defensive exposure. Both solutions aim to offer clients long term exposure to global equities.
Quest AI-Driven Equities
• Enhanced index strategy
• Harnessing the scale and efficiency of AI for stock selection
• Based on quantitative research
• Low tracking error, lower fee and compounding outperformance
• Aims to be a ‘crystal box’ rather than a ‘black box’
David Wright joined Pictet Asset Management in 2022 and is Co-Head of Quest, Quantitative Business Strategy.
Before joining Pictet, David spent 22 years at BlackRock (BGI before 2009), latterly as EMEA Head of Product Strategy for the Systematic Active Equity (SAE) business and the lead product strategist for SAE’s ESG products. Prior to that, David worked as a senior product strategist in London & New York representing the SAE business with institutions, intermediaries and consultants. Earlier in his BGI career he had roles in performance measurement and the RFP team. David has a Bachelor’s degree, in Economics from the University of Leicester.
About
Cyril Camilleri
Cyril Camilleri joined Pictet Asset Management in 2012 and is Co-Head of Quest, Business Management. He was previously a Senior Investment Manager.
Prior to joining Pictet, he spent 6 years at Diapason Commodities Management, first as a Portfolio Manager for several commodity funds and then as a Quantitative Analyst working to develop beta and alpha strategies on commodities as well as index computation and back-testing. Cyril started his career at Soufflet Négoce as a Trader Assistant working on IT developments and fundamental research on grains.
Cyril holds an Engineering degree in Agro Sciences from the Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan, and a Master's in Financial Engineering from the SKEMA Business School.
About
Reda Jürg Messikh
Reda Jürg Messikh joined Pictet Asset Management in 2007 and is Head of Quest Investments.
Reda was previously Senior Investment Manager/Head of Quantitative Research. Prior to that, he was Deputy Head of Risk Control in the Product and Risk Management team until 2011.
Before joining Pictet, he was a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne and at EURANDOM in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Reda Jürg graduated with an Engineering degree in Physics from EPFL. He also holds a PhD in Mathematics and a MSc in Stochastic Modelling from the University of Paris (Orsay).
About
Laurent Nguyen
Laurent Nguyen joined Pictet Asset Management in 1998. He is a Senior Advisor in the Quest team, having been previously head of the team.
Before joining Pictet, he was a teaching assistant giving courses on portfolio management and option theory until 1996. From 1997 to 2007, he was an instructor at AZEK The Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals.
Laurent holds a Master’s in Financial Economics from the University of Geneva.
About
Gabriele Susinno
Gabriele Susinno joined Pictet Asset Management in 2015 and is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager in the Quest team.
Before joining Pictet, Gabriele spent eight years at Unigestion where he was heading the Quantitative Research and Risk Management group at the Funds of Hedge Funds Unit. Previously, he worked at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise as head of Market Risk Management.
Gabriele started his career in finance in 1997 and gained various professional experiences working as quantitative analyst at the London Business School Software House (MONIS), as responsible for the ALM modeling at INA - Assitalia, and as a senior advisor for Institutional Investors at Capital Management Advisors/Deloitte.
Gabriele holds a Master's Degree in Astrophysics and a Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of Geneva and CERN.
About
Fabien Grossetête
Fabien Grossetête joined Pictet Asset Management in 2014. He is Head of Quest Technology & Data Science.
Prior to joining Pictet, he worked as an IT consultant in the financial industry, and established his own company, Monakea, which was dedicated to building fund-of-funds software.
Fabien has an Engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lille.
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