Banque Pictet & Cie SA new SSPA member

The Swiss Structured Products Association (SSPA) welcomes Banque Pictet & Cie SA to its ranks as new active member and buy-side representative. The admission of Banque Pictet & Cie SA as buy-side member underscores the ambition of SSPA to represent the entire value chain in the industry as a broad-based industry association including issuers, markets, the buy-side and partners in equal measure.

Zurich, 13 October 2015. Founded in Geneva in 1805, Pictet is today one of Europe’s leading independent wealth and asset managers, with more than CHF 435 billion in assets under management or custody at 31 December 2014. The Pictet Group is owned and managed by seven partners with principles of ownership and succession that have remained unchanged since foundation.

Julien Christin-Benoit, Head of Structured Products at Banque Pictet & Cie SA, about the SSPA membership: “By developing bespoken solutions for our clients, we appreciate Structured Products as innovative investment opportunities with a promising performance potential at reasonable costs. Consequently, our SSPA membership underlines our long term commitment to the Swiss structured products market.”

SSPA successively expanding into an industry association

SSPA represents the interests of the most important market participants, which together cover more than 95 percent of the market volume for structured products in Switzerland. SSPA VicePresident Philipp Rickenbacher: “We are very pleased to welcome Banque Pictet & Cie SA as a buy-side member in our association. By strengthening the buy-side, the SSPA is able to represent the interests of the entire industry in a comprehensive way. The membership of Pictet underpins the role of Structured Products in modern asset management.”