Written by Sarah Praetorius 

The Vaud-based investment manager, Longbow Finance, has named Alexandre Bouchardy as its new head discretionary portfolio management. He joined the firm this month in the city of Lutry.

Bouchardy was most recently the head of fixed income at Weisshorn Asset Management, a role he assumed in September 2023.

However, Bouchardy is better known in the world of Swiss finance as the former head asset management investment strategy and CIO multi-asset solutions at Credit Suisse. Bouchard held the role for three years in Zurich and was also the chairman of the Credit Suisse Asset Management Investment Committee and a member of its Global Investment Committee. Bouchardys spent over 21 years at Credit Suisse. From 2021 until 2022, he was the head of asset management fixed income at the bank in Zurich ad interim. In his former capacity, he spent three years as a managing director and the head asset management Singapore.

While based in Singapore, he also held titles such as head of equities Asia and head fixed income Asia at Credit Suisse.