Pictet Group
The Pictet Group
We are an independent investment partnership known for our long-term mindset, responsible approach to business and entrepreneurial spirit. These principles have defined us since 1805. For our clients, colleagues, and wider society, we always aim to do the right thing and honour our commitment to enduring quality.
About Pictet
Pictet is an investment group, offering wealth management, asset management and related services. We do not engage in investment banking, nor do we extend commercial loans.
Our guiding principles
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Independence
Rooted in Swiss tradition, our independence is protected by the absence of external shareholders. It frees us to concentrate on the interests of our clients, colleagues, communities and companies we invest in. It underpins the independence of mind that lies at the heart of successful investment performance.
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Long-term thinking
To think long term means to resist the temptations of short-term fashion in favour of sustainable decision-making. Both our investments and our businesses have a long-term focus, to the lasting benefit of all stakeholders and thus of the Pictet Group.
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Partnership
While Pictet has the legal form of a partnership, it is also a partnership in a wider sense. Partnership embodies respect, trust and interdependence over the long term. It also means embracing diversity and promoting inclusion.
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Responsibility
Responsibility goes hand in hand with a longterm partnership approach. It ensures a sense of responsibility and integrity towards not only the present generation but also to future generations — and towards the real economy and the wider world. This is the true meaning of sustainable thinking.
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Entrepreneurial spirit
Independence, long-term thinking, partnership and responsibility count for little if we do not keep our entrepreneurial spirit alive. Many businesses lose their boldness, adaptability and originality as they grow. They become process-driven bureaucracies. Pictet is determined to stay true to its entrepreneurial origins.
Key figures
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612BN GBPAssets under management or custody*
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1.570BN CHFOperating income**
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28.2percentTotal capital ratio**
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198percentLiquidity coverage ratio***
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5400+Full-time equivalent employees
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30Offices in financial centres worldwide
*Figure as of 30 September 2024
**Figures as of 30 June 2024
***Figure as of 31 December 2023
Who we serve
Clients come to Pictet for the attention, time, and expertise our teams give them. They appreciate the difference it makes to work with an independent firm aligned around their interests, with no pressures from external shareholders.
A pioneering approach
Ever since its foundation in 1805, Pictet has honed a pioneering spirit in the way we serve and invest for our clients. The constant acquisition of knowledge, paired with a long-term mindset, has been key to unlocking new opportunities and strategies.
Emerging market investing, early forays into alternative assets, and thematic investing are all commonplace today, but behind these innovations were individuals who dared to think differently and discover underdeveloped markets.
The Pictet of today retains the pioneering drive of its founders, combining unconventional thinking with hard-won experience. We will continue to do so, balancing a long-term view with a desire to keep innovating.
Generation after generation.
Responsibility is central to Pictet’s way of thinking. In aiming to ensure the prosperity of our clients over the long term, we are instinctively predisposed towards the interests of future generations.
Responsibility
With the challenges the world is now facing, we need to move swiftly to a more resilient and sustainable economy. For the financial system, we believe this calls for a systemic shift in focus away from exclusively maximising financial returns. It also means further developing solutions that redirect capital flows to companies and governments best positioned to tackle these challenges.
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Environmental stewardship
Our environmental approach is driven by the understanding that our activities have an impact and that we have an obligation to reduce this impact wherever possible.
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Responsible investing
Taking the long-term view is more important than ever – and that means embracing sustainability in our day-to-day investment decisions, active ownership and reporting practices.
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Responsible employer
Our independence has enabled us to pursue a unique approach to recruiting and managing people.
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Our Climate Action Plan
We see climate change as both an urgent challenge and a unique opportunity to build a better future.
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Pictet Research Institute
Based in Geneva, the Pictet Research Institute is a Group-wide capability dedicated to research with long-term implications for investment. It will engage in topics ranging from macro- and geopolitics to portfolio implementation solutions.
Through expert investigations, the Institute will enable us to better understand and adapt to the long-term implications of the economic and market environment development for the benefit of our clients and investment professionals.
Global presence
Pictet is present in 30 financial centres across the world with two offices in London.
Stories from the past
Our story is one of resourcefulness and renewal, drawing on the perspective of our history. Always ready to adapt to changing circumstances, the thrust of our strategy is towards continuity, stability and sustainability to the enduring advantage of our clients.
Entrance to 6 rue Diday in 1975, headquarters of the Pictet Group from 1926 to 1975.
Collection Pictet
Preserving and promoting art and artists is part of the long tradition of patronage that the Pictet Partners have cultivated from the Group’s very beginnings. The Collection Pictet therefore contains works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and reflects the quest for excellence, appetite for innovation and independent spirit expressed in the Group’s values. Founded in 2004, the Collection now contains over 1000 Swiss artworks, spanning from 1805 to the present day.
Collection Pictet: Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918), La Rade de Genève et le Salève, (The Genevan Lakefront and the Salève), 1878.
Campus Pictet de Rochemont
Water, air, light and greenery are the core elements of the winning project by the Geneva-based architectural firm dl-a, designlab-architecture. Submitted under the code name “Feng Shui”, the project will provide spaces that will ensure Pictet employees, clients and visitors constantly remain in contact with nature, bringing them calm, strength, peace and vitality. The new building will become the centrepiece of the Campus Pictet de Rochemont, a symbol of Pictet’s forward looking attitude, combined with a strong attachment to their roots.