Banque Bonhôte

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  Banque Bonhôte & Cie SA
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Country SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Seat Neuchâtel , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
legal form Corporation
IID 8570
BIC BONHCH22XXX
founding 1815
Website www.bonhote.ch
management
Corporate management

Jean Berthoud
( Chairman )

The Banque Bonhôte is in 1815 Neuchâtel founded Swiss private bank , in the areas of asset management operates and asset management.

history

In 1815, Louis-Auguste Petitmaître founded the first private bank in Neuchâtel at the age of 18 , although the city only had about 4,000 inhabitants at the time. First of all, the company specializes in trading metals before it becomes a real banking company in the following years. Louis-Auguste Petitmaître's bank was taken over in 1872 by his son Louis-Edouard, who had previously been elected MP at the beginning of the 1860s. In 1895 he teamed up with Paul Bonhôte, creating the Bank Antenen Bonhôte & Cie, which in 1903 became Bank Bonhôte & Cie.

In 1936, Claude Bonhôte succeeded his father, where he was the manager of the bank until 1988. In 1987 he sold the company to the financial holding company Prigest SA.

In 1992, Jean Berthoud and a group of shareholders buy back the bank: Jean Berthoud takes over management of the company and takes a member of the Bonhôte family back to the board. Jean Berthoud himself comes from a family that has existed since the 18th century. Century in the field of asset management is active in France, where his ancestors Jonas Berthoud 1785 the Bank Berthoud père et fils had founded, from which today's private bank Neuflize OBC has become the 1981-1986 nationalized was. In 1999 the bank was the last of the twelve administrative banks that made Neuchâtel's reputation in the 1920s.

In 2004, Bank Bonhôte began to expand by opening several branches in Switzerland: a first branch opened in Biel in 2004 , followed by Geneva (2009), Bern (2011), Lausanne (2016), Solothurn and Zurich (2020).

In 2014, Yves de Montmollin took over the management of the bank. Jean Berthoud, the majority shareholder in the company, will take the post of CEO on this occasion. Jean Berthoud has also had a seat on the board of the Swiss Bankers Association since 2010 .

activities

The activities of the Bonhôte group cover a range of services in the field of asset management and asset management. In the area of ​​asset management, 85% of Bank Bonhôte's clients are people with tax domicile in Switzerland.

The banking services are provided by Bank Bonhôte & Cie SA. These include a special expertise in asset management through a number of mutual fund type UCITS : equity funds , bond funds , hedge funds and real estate funds . The asset management division of Bank Bonhôte is best known for launching the Bonhôte-Immobilier fund in 2006, which later took over the Dynamic Real Estate Fund (DREF). Since this takeover, Bonhôte-Immobilier has become one of the most important real estate funds in French-speaking Switzerland .

The consulting services in turn are provided by three specialized subsidiaries, each of which is autonomous in its activities:

  • Bonhôte Service SA: specialized in legal and tax advice (Swiss and international) for private and legal persons.
  • BT Swiss Trustee SA: a subsidiary specializing in the management of trusts.
  • Private Client Partners: a department that is reserved for very large assets and is based in Zurich.

Governance

In 2017, Bank Bonhôte had around 100 employees, 4 to 5 of whom were seconded to each of its branches in French-speaking Switzerland. At the end of the 1990s, the board of directors of Bank Bonhôte included the former FDP MP Yann Richter and the former chairman of the Swiss National Bank , Jean Zwahlen, who was also a board member of BNP Paribas Suisse and Union Bancaire Privée , among its members.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the bank master of Swiss Interbank Clearing
  2. ↑ a b Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 34 .
  4. ↑ Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 40 .
  5. ↑ Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 47 .
  6. ↑ Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 54 .
  7. ↑ a b c Myriam Volorio Perriard: Bonhôte. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 61 .
  9. ↑ Patrice Allanfranchini: Banque Bonhôte: 200 ans à façonner l'avenir . Editions G d'encre, Neuchâtel 2015, ISBN 978-2-940501-42-7 , p. 28-29 .
  10. ↑ a b Bonhôte & Cie, ou le sens de l'artisanat bancaire haut de gamme . In: Le Temps . July 2, 1999, ISSN  1423-3967 ( letemps.ch [accessed August 20, 2020]).
  11. ↑ La Banque neuchâteloise Bonhôte a attiré 400 millions de francs d'argent frais . In: Le Temps . February 8, 2007, ISSN  1423-3967 ( letemps.ch [accessed August 20, 2020]).
  12. ↑ La Banque Bonhôte & Cie SA présente de bons résultats 2008 and continue son expansion in direction de Genève. In: PressePortal. April 29, 2009, accessed August 20, 2020 (French).
  13. ↑ La banque Bonhôte ouvre une succursale à Berne. In: Arcinfo. June 16, 2011, accessed August 20, 2020 (French).
  14. ↑ a b moneycab: Bank Bonhôte takes over Bank Private Client Partners in Zurich. July 2, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  15. ↑ La banque Bonhôte ouvre une succursale à Soleure. Arcinfo, February 1, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 (French).
  16. ↑ Bonhôte nomme un nouveau directeur général . In: Le Temps . February 20, 2014, ISSN  1423-3967 ( letemps.ch [accessed August 20, 2020]).
  17. ↑ a b c Les responsables de la banque Bonhôte: “Vendre? Absolument pas » . In: Le Temps . September 6, 2017, ISSN  1423-3967 ( letemps.ch [accessed August 20, 2020]).
  18. ^ Jean Berthoud nommé. Arcinfo, September 17, 2010, accessed August 20, 2020 .
  19. ^ Agefi SA: Le fonds Bonhôte-Immobilier offre le choix d'un dividende en titres. Retrieved August 20, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '22.2 "  N , 6 ° 55' 51.4"  E ; CH1903:  561380  /  204398