Former Syz Investment Chief Joins Aspiring Asset Manager

Swiss-based asset manager Decalia Asset Management has poached the former investment manager of Syz Asset Management, as finews.asia can reveal.

The Geneva-based company Decalia Asset Management has hired Fabrizio Quirighetti as the group’s chief investment officer (CIO). A spokesperson confirmed this information.

As part of his responsibilities, he will sit on the strategy and investment committees and will supervise the management of asset allocation and bond funds. He will assume the role on 1 October 2019. Quhirighetti left Syz Asset Management last April, as finews.asia already revealed.

Expertise as Economist and Fund Manager

Thanks to his expertise as both an economist and a fund manager, he will play a major role in strengthening economic forecasting and asset allocation at Decalia, as well as in implementing multi-asset and fixed income investment strategies.

Before joining Decalia, Quirighetti worked for more than 17 years at Syz Asset Management, where he was CIO and head of multi-asset. Before that, he spent six years working as a teaching assistant in the econometrics department at the University of Geneva.

Tactical Allocation

He holds a Master’s degree in applied econometrics from the University of Geneva and has, since 2014, been an external member of the tactical allocation committee of Compenswiss, the AHV/IV/EO social security fund manager.