The Partners of the Pictet Group .cls-1{fill:#fff;} Pictet, leading European independent investment management .cls-1{fill:#fff;} Pictet, leading European independent investment management Pictet ABOUT PICTET The Partners of the Pictet Group Pictet is a partnership of eight owner-managers responsible for the entire activity of the Group. Our principles of succession and transmission of ownership have remained unchanged since foundation in 1805. Partnership, our foundation for long-term thinking Over the past 216 years there have been only 45 partners1, each with an average tenure of over 21 years. Because the terms of the partners overlap, the knowledge, experience and values of each generation are absorbed and passed on without interruption. With the eighth generation of the Pictet family still active in the partnership, our structure ensures that we remain committed to maintaining the financial strength and solidity of the Group. The partners of Pictet. Top row, left to right: Marc Pictet, Bertrand Demole, Renaud de Planta (Senior Partner), Rémy Best, Elif Aktuğ*, Laurent Ramsey. Bottom row, left to right: Sébastien Eisinger, François Pictet*. *Pending final regulatory approval The nature of our partnership Our partners’ morning Salon is like an orchestra tuning up before the performance. At the end of the meeting, the partners leave the room fully aligned for the day ahead. It sounds like a picture of harmony and concord. But it’s not so easy to reach decisions with eight independent minds around the table, and when the Senior Partner is, by tradition, primus inter pares. That explains why the partners meet not once a week, or once a month — we can leave that for a board of directors with a CEO — but three times a week. Because each new proposal needs to be weighed, considered, tested, slept on, until a broad consensus is achieved. And even then, a strategy may be refined as it develops. It may seem like a recipe for indecision. Yet in business, too many decisions are taken in haste and regretted at leisure. A strategy that has been fully examined is much more likely to be — to use the former hedge fund manager and philosopher Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s term — ‘antifragile’ than the capricious actions of a CEO at the mercy of a vote by distant or disengaged shareholders. This business model may seem to lead to a less pressurised working environment. That’s not exactly so; it’s just that when the average tenure of a partner is of over twenty-one years, the pressure is long term, rather than short term. And that kind of future-oriented thinking extends throughout Pictet. It explains the value we attach to long-term thinking both in our relationships with clients and in business strategy; it promotes our sense of responsibility towards clients, colleagues and communities; it safeguards our independence of mind and action; and it feeds our entrepreneurial spirit. The Salon in 1970 with, from left to right, Guy Demole, Denis de Marignac, Claude de Saussure, Michel Pictet, Jean-Pierre Demole, Edouard Pictet, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Pierre Pictet. A case study on Pictet’s partnership model The Witten Institute for Family Business, the first research institute in Germany to specialise in family businesses, has published a case study on Pictet first in 2005, and updated most recently in November 2019. “Pictet’s partnership model seems to have found a way to exploit the advantages of family-type structures to the maximum, while at the same time reducing the associated risks to the minimum.” Torsten Groth, Fritz B. Simon Witten Institute Read the most recent study 1 Pending final regulatory approval for Elif Aktuğ and François Pictet. ABOUT PICTET The Partners Annual Review Philanthropic tradition Long-term thinking Pictet ratings Collection Pictet Campus Pictet de Rochemont Worldwide offices Contacts About Pictet A responsible vision Careers Media relations Pictet Connect Global contacts US nationals and residents interested in our investment services should enter the site here to satisfy local legal requirements applying to the US. All site visitors should consult the legal notice for detailed local legal requirements applicable to your country and links to specific entities of the Pictet Group which are able to operate under those restrictions. Photos: Sarah Weal; Christopher Anderson, Alex Majoli, Carolyn Drake, Mark Power and Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos. Privacy notice | Cookie preferences ©2021, Pictet Group To refuse the use of cookies, change your settings or for more information, please click on the following link: Cookies policy. By continuing to browse this website, you accept the use of cookies for the above purposes.