Fisch Asset Management
Fisch Asset Management is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of convertible bonds. The company, founded by Kurt Fisch and Dr. Pius Fisch in 1994, has 49 employees and managed assets of CHF 5.2 billion as of December 2011. Fisch is registered as an authorised securities dealer (Effektenhändler) and is regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).
We view our corporate culture as the basis of our long-term success. This culture is also reflected in our continuity (see History) and in the competence of our employees.
Our clientele
We focus on serving institutional clients, and the majority of our assets under management have traditionally come from the German-speaking region of Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein. Thanks to our strategic cooperation with Schroders, we now also offer funds and mandates to a global audience. Building on the CHF 1 billion of net new money in 2010, Fisch recorded again healthy new money inflows of CHF 1 billion in 2011.
Our products and services
As a market leader in convertibles, we offer solutions tailored to meet the needs of our clients. Our product range comprises absolute-return, defensive and opportunistic strategies. These main strategies are available with a global or regional focus as well as with a sustainability theme. Our market leadership is also reflected in the 30-page product reports for the defensive FISCH CB ICEF Fund and the opportunistic FISCH CB Hybrid International Fund.
Successful management of convertible bonds requires competence in the key components of convertibles, in trend recognition and in the behaviour of the different components under market stress. Our expertise in these areas is underscored by the Lipper Fund Awards in bond management (FISCH Bond CHF Fund and FISCH Bond Value Fund) as well as by our success in the emerging markets (FISCH Bond Value Investment Grade). The FISCH Trend Navigator Fund provides an explicit measure of our competence in trend recognition, and the defensive FISCH MultiAbsoluteValue Manta Fund highlights our ability to assess how the different asset classes react to market stress.
