Bearbull Degroof Banque Privée SA

BDSA is the result of the merger between Banque Degroof (Switzerland) SA and Bearbull (Switzerland) SA on 30.03.06.

Established in 1970, Bearbull (Switzerland) SA, independent asset manager, is solely dedicated to the international management of assets, both private and institutional, and has used all its resources to constantly improve and progress in this specific area.

Banque Degroof (Switzerland) SA, which has been present on the Geneva market since 1996, has developed its know-how over the past decade with the help of the 135 years of experience of the Degroof Group.

The parent company is situated in Brussels, but the Group now has offices in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain, France and the Netherlands. Its geographical reach has benefited from majority shareholdings taken over during the past few years in asset management companies and financial institutions, both Belgian and foreign. On 30 September 2005, with a workforce of 879 people, the Group reported assets under management of a total of CHF 31 billion and assets under custody of CHF 55 billion.

The Bank is independent and controlled by its management and was awarded the honour of Best Private Bank in Belgium in 2005 by Euromoney.

Bearbull Degroof Banque Privée SA offers a range of asset management services via a “multi-deposit” business model, a concept that allows clients to deposit assets with the Bank or with another bank.

Performance over the long term

The bank’s management strategy is a fine blend of various complementary management approaches:

• top-down macroeconomic management:
  this approach, applied on the large efficient markets, provides results, which each year are better  than those of the majority of global asset managers;
• asymmetric risk structures:
  the conditions on the options markets have enabled us to build financial structures, which, while limiting the risk of losses, offer uncorrelated performances better than the performances of other classes of assets;
• use of specific skills in different classes of assets external to the group:
  the bank uses external managers to whom it delegates management of a class of assets, shares from a geographical region or the application of management techniques that it does not handle in house.

By arranging personalised portfolios, the combination of these complementary investment approaches results in an overall approach focused on the long term and reliability of performances.

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