Stéphane Rüegg joined Pictet Asset Management in 2013 as a Client Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income team. He covers European credit investment grade and high yield. Before joining Pictet, he was client portfolio manager with Amundi in Singapore and Paris. Stéphane started his career in 1999 as fixed income risk manager at Credit Agricole Indosuez. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of risk control of the global fixed income team at Amundi in London. Stéphane holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Ecole supérieure de commerce de Paris and a master in political sciences from Institut d’études politiques de Paris.
Sylvie Séjournet is Senior Investment Manager at Pictet Asset Management.
Arabella Turner is ESG specialist at Pictet Asset Management.
Petra Pflaum is EMEA Co-Head of Equities and CIO for Responsible Investments in DWS. She started working in the asset manager in 1999.
Andrés Sánchez Balcázar joined Pictet Asset Management’s Fixed Income team in 2011 and is Head of Global Bonds. Before joining Pictet, he was a senior portfolio manager for Western Asset Management Company Ltd for six years. During his tenure he was responsible for global, European and absolute return fixed income portfolios. Previously, he worked for five years as a global and European portfolio manager with Merrill Lynch Investments Managers.
Sabrina Khanniche joined Pictet Asset Management in 2011 as Economist in the Fixed Income team. Before joining Pictet, she was with Groupama Asset Management during four years as a Financial Engineer in charge of the anlysis and modelling of hedge fund risks. In this regard, she published and presented her work in international academic conferences. Sabrina holds a Master a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense.
Sudhir joined the Vontobel Quality Growth Boutique in August 2010 and currently leads the ESG and engagement efforts for the firm’s research team. He also manages the boutique’s thought leadership, bringing a more spontaneous conversation to clients and stakeholders on a broad range of subjects, including insights into the less seen workings of companies held.
Starting his financial career in 1989, Sudhir has 30 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Vontobel, from 2007 to 2010, he was Director of European Cash Equity Sales and Head of Global Macro Sales at Société Générale. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a Managing Director at Middlebury Equity Partners, a fund invested in private equity and mezzanine debt. From 2001 to 2005 he was President and CEO of Pompous Pot Foods.
From 1995 to 2001, he was a Senior Equity Analyst and Head of Equity Research of the Americas at BNP Paribas, New York, and from 1992 to 1995, an Equity Analyst at Casa de Bolsa Interacciones, in Mexico City.
He received a Master of Science in Investment Analysis from the University of Stirling, in Scotland. He is also an associate of the CFA Society of the United Kingdom and holds a Series 7 FINRA License.
Luciano Diana, Senior Investment Manager in the Thematic Equities Team and running the Pictet Global Environment Opportunities at Pictet Asset Management.
Edwin Walczak is US Equity Portfolio Manager at the Vontobel Quality Growth Boutique
Andreas Fruschki, CFA, is a portfolio manager and Head of Thematic Equity with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2005. In his current role he is responsible for multiple global thematic equity funds, including AllianzGI’s SDG-aligned fund range. Fruschki’s experience includes running the European Equity Research Department of AllianzGI. He previously held various legal positions in Berlin and also worked as a consultant in the corporate-finance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hamburg, Germany.
