Rothschild has represented a unique name and reputation in the financial world for almost 250 years and has always managed to run its lines of business with respect for excellence, creativity, discretion and stability, which are the cornerstones of its reputation. The Edmond de Rothschild Group was created in the early 1950s by Edmond de Rothschild and is presided over today by his son, Benjamin.
Headquartered in Geneva, the Edmond de Rothschild Group offers a wide range of financial products and services, through different business lines: Asset Management, Corporate Finance, Private Banking and Investment Fund Services and through several areas of expertise such as Equity, Fixed Income, Asset Allocation, Overlay Management, Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure Debt. Our aim is to always innovate, being bold builder of the future and respond to our clients’ evolving needs. As at end of December 2018, the Edmond de Rothschild Group had 2,700 employees across the world, overseeing almost € 150 billion of assets across our global and comprehensive offer.
All of the entities of the Group ultimately belong to the Rothschild family through a Swiss holding based in Geneva. Edmond de Rothschild Holding S.A. is the financial group’s ultimate holding company and is controlled by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild; this holding controls, directly and/or indirectly all of the Edmond de Rothschild Group’s entities.
The Group Edmond de Rothschild is structured around two main strategic activities: asset management and private banking. Headed by Christophe Caspar, Chief Executive Officer of Edmond de Rothschild AM, the Asset Management business line brings together all the asset management activities of the Edmond de Rothschild Group :
Liquid assets which are actively managed (e.g. equities, asset allocation, fixed income, multi management, overlay management among others);
Illiquid assets (infrastructure debt, private equity and real estate);
Institutional & Fund Services (fund creation, administration and custody services).
The Edmond de Rothschild group’s Asset Management business line includes, as at end September 2019, 546 professionals. With more than € 90 billion of assets under management(Including € 19.4 billion of assets under administration) Edmond de Rothschild AM is an established and renowned multi specialist investment house that relies on a global organization of its asset management business line.
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (France), the main asset management company of the Group, is signatory of the PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) since 2010. Our investment teams which total XXX professionals, representing more than 30% of our total staff, are dedicated to analysis and portfolio management, and are responsible for the management of close to €27 bn as at end of December 2019. The company is actively involved within the Industry to promote Responsible investments is firmly committed to deploying resources and harnessing our teams’ efforts to embed ESG factors across the firm’s investment strategies, in a reasonable and gradual manner.
*Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (France) or Edmond de Rothschild AM (France) is the commercial name of one of the asset management entities (including branches and subsidiaries) of the Edmond de Rothschild (EdR) Group. Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management refers to the Asset Management business line of the EdR Group.