Aquila, Weiss & Company

Aquila, Weiss & Company

Launched in 2019 by co-founder Beat Thomas Weiss, the firm was built inside Aquila AG, a Zurich-based platform for independent asset managers that supplies regulatory hosting, trading infrastructure, and administrative scale. The arrangement lets Aquila, Weiss & Company operate as a licensed Swiss securities dealer — supervised by FINMA — while staying majority-owned by its management team. The firm has not disclosed the source of its founding client wealth. The firm structures its investment mandates around asset-class neutrality: clients access equities, fixed income, real estate and private equity, with the office selecting vehicles rather than manufacturing in-house products. The model depends on cross-platform access to the Aquila network, which counts more than twenty affiliate boutiques in Zurich, Geneva, Lugano, Lucerne, Soleure and Chur, each bringing distinct asset-class or regional specialist expertise. Portfolio construction typically blends direct securities, fund commitments and, where client scale permits, co-investment access sourced through network relationships. Actual headcount is not published, though the firm draws on the wider Aquila platform’s shared services for compliance, legal and execution. A dedicated philanthropic channel exists through the affiliated SQUARE / HSG Foundation, which connects family-office clients with structured-giving programs at the University of St. Gallen. No recent fund closes or named portfolio-company positions have appeared in the public record in the last 24 months. The structural distinction is the delivery model: the firm functions as an MFO inside a multi-boutique alliance, not a captive of a private-bank ledger. That architecture allocates the head-office function — Aquila AG handles cross-border registration, custody aggregation and regulatory filings — while the local partner office stays small, client-facing, and free to pick strategies without in-house product quotas.