Profile
Dr. Michaël Malquarti is a Chief Risk Officer at Quaero Capital SA. He joined the firm in 2017 as Senior Portfolio Manager, designing investment tools and processes and managing portfolios across several asset classes.
He took on the role of Chief Risk Officer in 2020.
Prior to Quaero Capital, Dr. Malquarti started his career in 2005 at SYZ Asset Management.
He initially developed quantitative and qualitative tools to support the alternative investment process and subsequently, as Head of Risk, designed and institutionalized its risk management process.
In 2010, he joined the alternative investments team as Senior Portfolio Manager with a focus on quantitative issues, complex strategies and portfolio construction.
In 2012, Dr. Malquarti was promoted to Co-Head of the alternative investment team, before becoming in 2015 the Head of the overall manager research team.
He holds a Masters in Mathematical Physics from the University of Geneva and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Sussex (UK).
Michaël Malquarti active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Quaero Capital SA
Quaero Capital SA Investment ManagersFinance Quaero Capital is an active, opportunistic investor which manages concentrated portfolios with a long-term outlook and a view to generating substantial absolute return. They invest primarily in micro- and small-cap companies with a focus on European securities; however, they are not tied by country, index or sector weightings. The firm engages in bottom-up stockpicking and follows a value-oriented approach, aiming to identify undervalued companies, which are poorly followed by mainstream investors. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | 01/01/2017 |
Former positions of Michaël Malquarti
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SYZ Asset Management (Suisse) SA
SYZ Asset Management (Suisse) SA Investment ManagersFinance SYZ AM is an active, value and conviction-based manager which aims to generate substantial added value by reacting promptly to changes in market conditions. They are performance-oriented and non-indexed, employing a fundamental approach based on a sound macroeconomic scenario. The firm’s teams follow a disciplined and transparent investment process, which includes risk management at each stage. They select securities based on a fundamental and independent analysis. SYZ AM has experience in a variety of asset classes including liquidity (CHF liquidity management, EUR liquidity management); fixed-income (Swiss investment grade bonds, Swiss Government bonds, sovereign bonds and global bonds); equities (global equities, global high dividend equities, European equities, European small-cap equities and Japanese equities); currencies; (high yield currency fund, FX); multi-asset (diversified growth mandates, balanced mandates) and absolute return mandates (multi strategy composite funds, closed-end fund of hedge funds and tailor-made institutional mandates). | Head-Equity Investments | 01/06/2016 |
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Quaero Capital SA
Quaero Capital SA Investment ManagersFinance Quaero Capital is an active, opportunistic investor which manages concentrated portfolios with a long-term outlook and a view to generating substantial absolute return. They invest primarily in micro- and small-cap companies with a focus on European securities; however, they are not tied by country, index or sector weightings. The firm engages in bottom-up stockpicking and follows a value-oriented approach, aiming to identify undervalued companies, which are poorly followed by mainstream investors. | Finance |
SYZ Asset Management (Suisse) SA
SYZ Asset Management (Suisse) SA Investment ManagersFinance SYZ AM is an active, value and conviction-based manager which aims to generate substantial added value by reacting promptly to changes in market conditions. They are performance-oriented and non-indexed, employing a fundamental approach based on a sound macroeconomic scenario. The firm’s teams follow a disciplined and transparent investment process, which includes risk management at each stage. They select securities based on a fundamental and independent analysis. SYZ AM has experience in a variety of asset classes including liquidity (CHF liquidity management, EUR liquidity management); fixed-income (Swiss investment grade bonds, Swiss Government bonds, sovereign bonds and global bonds); equities (global equities, global high dividend equities, European equities, European small-cap equities and Japanese equities); currencies; (high yield currency fund, FX); multi-asset (diversified growth mandates, balanced mandates) and absolute return mandates (multi strategy composite funds, closed-end fund of hedge funds and tailor-made institutional mandates). | Finance |
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