Article published in PME Magazine, June 25th 2025
With over two decades of experience, Dominicé has established itself as a prominent asset manager, known for its quantitative discipline, rigorous approach, and solid track record. At the head of the Wealth Management department, Partner Benoît Mandosse reflects on the DNA of a firm that places performance, transparency, and discipline at the heart of its investment strategy.
“At Dominicé, we are the first investors in our own products. It’s a matter of consistency, but also of responsibility toward our clients.”
Dominicé builds its activity around three complementary pillars:
- Private wealth management, with an investment philosophy inspired by Benjamin Graham: selecting quality companies with high visibility, and building robust, diversified portfolios.
- Volatility arbitrage, the historical core of Dominicé’s expertise, which consists in exploiting market inefficiencies to generate asymmetric and uncorrelated returns. This approach, tested since 2003, has performed well during crises such as the 2008 subprime crisis or the 2020 Covid crash. “For us, volatility is not a risk; it’s an opportunity, provided you know how to quantify it.”
- Listed residential real estate in Switzerland, through a high-performing vehicle, with cumulative returns exceeding 58% over five years—making it the best-performing listed real estate fund in Switzerland, far ahead of bonds or traditional funds in the sector.
Rational, transparent, and disciplined private wealth management
“We favor clarity over promises. We systematically compare our clients’ portfolio performance with recognized benchmarks, to enable objective assessment of our investment quality.”
Dominicé also publishes the results of its model portfolio on its website, which has posted a cumulative return of +347.72% and an annualized return of +7.15% over more than ten years—an accurate reflection of the strategy applied.
Wealth management at Dominicé relies on scientific, quantitative, and macroeconomic methods, integrating seasonality factors, market stress indicators (VIX), and geopolitical analysis.
The objective? To anticipate, adjust, and adapt—not to follow trends, but to understand them.
“We take a quantitative approach to get the signals for when to enter and exit the markets.”
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The agility of a tight-knit expert team
With four people in its Wealth Management team, Dominicé emphasizes high specialization: three portfolio managers and one dedicated client assistant. The company’s structure is horizontal, with highly qualified profiles—including a PhD in nuclear physics overseeing risk management. This technical and collaborative culture strengthens responsiveness and decision-making robustness.
With a total team of 20 people, this human-scale structure fosters closeness, agility, and operational efficiency.
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Real estate: a tangible and strategic asset
In a demanding Swiss market, Dominicé selects its real estate assets with engineering-level precision. Each property is assessed according to technical, valuation, and rental potential criteria. Targeted renovations create added value and improve portfolio quality.
“We don’t seek quantity, but reliability. That’s what makes the difference in uncertain environments.”
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Rooted in reality, far from fleeting trends
As emerging assets such as cryptocurrencies gain ground, Dominicé remains committed to a reality-based approach.
“Crypto-assets are still too unstable. We prefer real assets such as equities or real estate, which offer visibility.”
The same scientific discipline applies across all asset classes—including original exposures like catastrophe reinsurance (“catastrophe bonds”), used as part of a diversification strategy.
Convictions applied with method
Dominicé embodies another way of investing: a measured, independent, and analytical finance, where each decision is rational, each performance measurable, and each client guided with clarity. A modern response to the uncertainties of a changing world.
“Our ambition is simple: to act with rigor, integrity, and enthusiasm—even when managing CHF 2 billion in assets.”
