The Swiss banking group Syz has integrated its institutional asset management activities within the newly-created division Syz Asset Management.
Syz Asset Management will manage all the group’s institutional mandates, both traditional and alternative, as well as investment funds.
Syz Asset Management will directly promote its capabilities to institutional clients.
Banque Syz & Co will offer the group’s products, such as Oyster funds or 3A funds, to professional intermediaries.
Together with the existing Syz Asset Management entities in London, Milan and Hong Kong, Syz Asset Management in Switzerland will serve all institutional clients of the group, focusing on pension funds, insurance companies and corporates.
Syz Asset Management will offer institutional investors long-only investment solutions in equities and fixed income, and multi-asset absolute return mandates, as well as advice, fund selection and portfolio management in alternative asset classes. Syz Asset Management will have its own dedicated resources for research, analysis, portfolio and risk management, marketing and operations.
"We are currently witnessing a rapid convergence between the traditional world of investment and alternative management. The integration of our activities creates strong synergies and positions us as a particularly versatile institutional asset manager,” says Paolo Luban, managing partner of Syz & Co and head of asset management.
"Our expertise, proven track record and capabilities in traditional asset classes and portfolios of hedge funds allows us to be particularly competitive in traditional multi asset absolute return mandates, which are in high demand at present," adds Patrick Bédat (pictured), chief executive of Syz Asset Management.
