Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - NOTZ STUCKI

Editorial Staff

17 June 2020

NOTZ STUCKI
The Swiss asset management firm has hired three personnel to join its institutional sales team in Geneva, Zurich and Milan.

Alexis Peytre is joining in Geneva, Pascal Scherer will head the Zurich office, and Michele Colavito is joining the Milan office.

Alexis Peytre, who has 10 years’ experience, is institutional sales associate for Switzerland. He started his career in 2010 at Edmond de Rothschild Assurances et Conseils, covering wholesale clients in France. In 2011, he joined Lazard Frères Gestion in Paris as marketing manager and sales support for Switzerland.

In 2017, he moved to the new entity Lazard Fund Managers in Geneva to promote Lazard Frères Gestion (Paris) and Lazard Asset Management (New York) fund range in Switzerland.

Pascal Scherer is joining as head of the Zurich office and head of business development in German-speaking Switzerland. Prior to this, he was chief executive and partner of one of the first long/short equity fund managers in Europe and founded Peak Capital, an investment management firm specialising in real assets and commodities. Previously, he was head of infrastructure investments at Horizon21, an alternative investment manager with more than SFr12 billion under management.

Scherer has 33 years’ experience in finance, having worked in various roles at UBS for 12 years, followed by seven years at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup in wealth management and institutional sales.

Finally, Michele Colavito is joining the Milan office as institutional sales associate for Italy. Having built up in-depth understanding of market technicalities at BNP Paribas, he moved to a product management role at Société Générale, before being promoted to managing sales for the whole spectrum of services. In 2014, he moved to Allfunds as sales manager for the home market. In 2018, he joined Merian Global Investors where he was responsible for business development in Italy.