Quintet Private Bank

Daniele Antonucci has taken on a new role at Quintet Private Bank. He has been appointed as Co-Head of Investment & Chief Investment Officer per July 1, he announced in a post on LinkedIn.

Antonucci joined Quintet in April 2020 and has since then served as Chief Economist & Macro Strategist. Before joining Quintet, he was Chief Euro Area Economist at Morgan Stanley.

More exposure to low-volatility European equities, high quality bonds in the U.S. and a bit in liquid hedge funds, and less to high quality European corporate debt, lower quality corporate bonds and gold. These are the portfolio shifts Luxembourg-headquartered Quintet Private Bank advises to its clients in its latest midyear investment outlook.

A fortnight ago, Dutch private bank InsingerGilissen sold a pack of high yield bonds to increase its holdings in investment grade bonds. The bank does not rule out that it will do so again in early 2023. “If you expect risks, there will be a storm in the high yield segment as well,” chief investment officer Gerwin Wijnia told InvestmentOfficer.nl.

Quintet sees little cause for celebration when the world rings in the new year, the Luxembourg private bank said in its 2023 outlook. The year ahead will be one of two halves: once central banks stop raising interest rates, a new cycle of uneven, global growth will begin. High-dividend and low-volatility equities may provide an opportunity to reduce portfolio risk, the firm’s investment officers said.

Luxembourg-based Quintet Private Bank on Sunday said it remains committed to its InsingerGilissen unit in the Netherlands after news emerged at the weekend of another major departure of one of its investment teams, the second such exit in the space of two weeks.

A Rotterdam-based investment team of four people representing InsingerGilissen, part of Luxembourg-based private bank Quintet, has transferred to Auréus, an independent Dutch asset manager that has been gaining scale through acquisitions and alliances in recent years. 

Former UBS director James Purcell has left Luxembourg-based private bank Quintet and joined Credit Suisse as head of sustainability. Purcell will report directly to ​​Credit Suisse’s chief sustainability officer, Emma Crystal.

After more than a decade at UBS, Purcell in 2020 joined Quintet as group head of sustainable, thematic and impact investments. At UBS he held similar positions between 2009 and 2020. His appointment at Credit Suisse took effect this month.

Luxembourg-based Quintet Private Bank on Thursday said that it has named Chris Allen as Group CEO. Allen, who spent the past 15 years moving up the ranks at HSBC, brings over three decades of financial services experience to the role and will take up the position on 1 July. His appointment is subject to regulatory approval. 

Frankfurt-based Universal Investment Group, a leading asset services provider with Super ManCo status in Luxembourg, on Tuesday flagged further European growth ambitions outside German-language countries when it announced it had reached agreement on its acquisition of European Fund Administration for an undisclosed amount.

Quintet Private Bank today announced the launch of the “world’s first multi-asset, climate-neutral investment fund”, Essential Portfolio Selection (EPS) Quintet Earth after raising some 280 million euros in funding. This UCITS fund “combines equal exposure to green bonds and low carbon equities”. The fund offsets associated carbon emissions through reforestation activities.