Category II: Traditional Assets

Bellevue Asset Management — Marcel Fritsch, Head of Healthcare Funds & Mandates

Bellevue Asset Management launched the Bellevue Healthcare ETF — an actively managed UCITS ETF focused on global healthcare equities — channeling the firm's concentrated sector expertise, built since 1993, into an exchange-traded, daily liquid, and cost-efficient structure. The product is designed to counter the tendency of passive strategies to be dominated by mega caps, which leaves a significant portion of the sector's growth potential untapped. Using fundamental company analysis, 50 to 100 promising names are selected for the actively managed ETF portfolio. → finews article

Decalia — Roberto Magnatantini, Lead Portfolio Manager

Decalia Asset Management has formalized its active defense strategy — developed as a first mover among Swiss asset managers — into the regulated AEGIS UCITS fund. The fund covers a global investment universe ranging from established defense contractors and drone technology to specialized niche providers. For investors, it offers liquid access to a theme that, after decades of deliberate underinvestment, now stands at the beginning of a generational growth cycle. → finews article

Pictet Asset Management — Hans-Peter Portner, Head of Thematic Equities

Since 1995 — starting with water, then timber, clean energy, nutrition, and robotics — Pictet Asset Management has built a global platform of 16 thematic strategies with around 72 billion dollars in assets under management, achieving the world's leading position in thematic investing according to Morningstar. That a Swiss asset manager has internationally defined and shaped an entire investment category is a defining achievement. → finews article

Schroders Switzerland — Dominik Brunner, Country Head

With the listing of the Schroder ETFs ICAV Global Equity Active UCITS ETF USD ACC, Schroders enters the European market for active ETFs. The listing gives the asset manager access to Swiss retail and institutional investors and broadens the product range on the Swiss exchange. → finews article (in German)

UBS Asset Management — André Müller, Head of Client Coverage and Head of Asset Management Switzerland

With UBS Client Voice, UBS Asset Management has launched an innovative solution that allows Swiss institutional clients to express voting preferences for shareholder meetings in line with the priorities of their organization or beneficiaries. For the first time, eligible fund investors can apply their own individual guidelines across all their holdings and — if desired — specify voting preferences down to the company level for individual agenda items at annual general meetings. → finews article (in German)

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