The Swiss financial industry used to benefit from true role models who regularly spoke their minds and made the general public aware of the importance of banks for the country. Over the past 15 years, this tradition has been lost. Who are the most important opinion leaders in banking today?
(Bloomberg) A day after Pictet & Cie.’s announcement that partner Boris Collardi would leave, management sought to assure stunned employees that the Swiss bank will do what it does best: stay the course. Appearing in a town-hall meeting, senior managing partner Renaud de Planta said Pictet’s wealth-management strategy would remain intact, and that no changes were afoot. He was flanked by Marc Pictet, another member of the top management group and a family heir, as well as Collardi himself, who spoke in emotional terms of his three years at the Geneva-based bank, according to people familiar with the meeting. Read More: Inside Pictet, the Secretive Swiss Bank Torn Between Old and New Collardi was visibly moved as he recounted his time at Pictet, which he joined from Julius Baer AG, the people said. He spoke of his achievements and the pride he took in having worked for the storied institution. Leaving now was the most difficult decision of his career, Collardi told the gathering,
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