Bürgenstock in Interlaken 2008, September 3 to 6, 2008 > Speakers

Dr. Philipp Cottier

Dr. Philipp A.P. Cottier is Senior Advisor and Member of the Board of Directors of Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, a Zurich-based firm providing fund of hedge funds and commodity investment solutions and portfolio management services to a blue chip institutional client base. Harcourt has in excess of USD 5.5 bn assets under management, a staff of 90 people, and offices in Zurich, New York, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Madrid, Geneva and Cayman. The firm is majority owned by the Vontobel Group, as well as by Harcourt's management and staff. Prior to joining Harcourt in 1998, Dr. Cottier was serving as an investment adviser on the investment committees of several of Swiss Bank Corp's funds of hedge funds in Hong Kong and New York, and as a hedge fund analyst for SBC Private Banking in Basel. He has diverse international experience, including having worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney. Dr. Cottier graduated from the University of St. Gallen in 1992. He holds a Masters in Finance & Accounting, a Masters in Political Science and a PhD in Finance. His doctoral thesis 'Hedge Funds and Managed Futures' was published in at Paul Haupt Publishers in Bern. See also: 04:15 pm 'Switzerland - on the way to a hedge fund center?’