Who we are
Combining performance, innovation and expertise to deliver consistent returns across market cycles
About us
Founded in 1971, Unigestion is an international boutique asset manager, providing innovative investment solutions for institutional clients and high net worth individuals worldwide.
We believe that intelligent risk-taking is key to delivering consistent returns over time. This core conviction underpins our investment approach across our three areas of expertise –private equity, equities and wealth management.
A financially robust business with offices across Europe, North America and Asia, our ownership structure ensures our business is aligned with the needs of its stakeholders.
Unigestion’s largest shareholder is the Famsa Foundation, a Swiss foundation established by our Chairman Bernard Sabrier in 2011 to make substantial contributions to a wide range of projects in the charitable, educational, cultural and medical fields. Employees and clients are also represented as shareholders.
Innovation, expertise and performance
Our experienced investment professionals work across our offices in Europe, North America and Asia, harnessing our advanced proprietary technology to support the delivery of consistent performance for clients.
Unigestion has a long track record of innovation. We were one of the early investors in hedge funds in the 1980s, were an early adopter of private equity strategies such as secondaries and emerging managers, and pioneered low volatility equity investing in the 1990s.
We believe in harnessing the power of technology to enhance our investment processes and have developed exciting, proprietary tools to support our investment professionals. These rigorously back-tested technologies help our people make informed investment decisions.
Our focus on understanding and anticipating risk as a means to outperform also sets us apart. By taking risk in a measured, informed way, we aim to deliver the performance our clients expect.
We are recognised for our early adoption of ESG principles. We launched our first SRI fund in 2004 and have steadily integrated ESG principles into the majority of our investments. We firmly believe that sustainability will be a long-term driver for change in markets, countries, sectors and companies and want to participate in the investment returns these opportunities will generate.
Innovation, the intelligent use of technology and human insight – applied across our investment expertise – are at the heart of our ability to deliver consistent results.
Our clients
We help some of the world’s most sophisticated investors grow their capital and mitigate risk.
We pride ourselves on being a trusted partner, working closely with our clients over the long term to find solutions that meet their investment goals. On average, our largest clients have relationships with us spanning 14 years.
We have decades of experience in running bespoke mandates, which today account for more than 60% of our assets under management.
Pension Funds
Insurance Companies
Financial Institutions
Family Offices
Sovereign Wealth Funds
High Net Worth Families
Governance & management
Strong governance is integral to everything we do. Unigestion is an independent business with a stakeholder model of ownership to ensure a strong alignment of interests.
Awards
July 2023: Unigestion wins European Pensions’ Private Equity Manager of the Year Award for the sixth time in seven years
Media centre
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Offices
Headquartered in Geneva, Unigestion has a global presence, with offices across Europe, North America and Asia.