De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Cie

De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Cie

De Pury Pictet Turrettini & Cie was established in 1996 by Melchior de Muralt alongside Guillaume Pictet, Henri Turrettini, and the late David de Pury — a former Swiss diplomat and ABB executive. The four principals fused capital from the de Pury, Pictet, and Turrettini lineages, anchoring the Geneva-based multi-family office in the private-wealth tradition of Swiss banking while deliberately operating as an independent asset manager. The firm deploys capital across public equities, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources, hedge funds, and commodities. Portfolio construction is organized around three secular trends — digitalization, demographic change, and climate risk — and an active-ownership framework called Buy & Care®. Melchior de Muralt, who also co-founded BlueOrchard, has described the approach as investing in a company rather than merely trading its shares. Geographic exposure spans Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The firm manages dedicated Luxembourg and Swiss vehicles, including the Swiss Positive Gold Fund and the Cadmos Engagement Funds, and its public-markets posture is reinforced by long-standing signatory commitments to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (since 2008) and Climate Action 100+. Team scale and total deployment figures are not publicly disclosed, but operations are led by a five-member management group. Christopher Quast serves as President of the Executive Committee, joined by Paolo Bozzo, Frédéric Dawance, Florian Ducrey, and de Muralt. The firm runs offices on Geneva’s Rue de la Corraterie and Zurich’s Talstrasse. On the philanthropic side, the Fondation David de Pury and PeaceNexus Foundation extend the family-office architecture into mission-related structures. The firm’s culture draws additional visibility from Simon de Pury — cousin of co-founder David de Pury — a globally prominent art auctioneer and collector whose orbit reinforces the house’s standing in the luxury and cultural sectors. What structurally differentiates De Pury Pictet Turrettini is its fusion of blue-blood Swiss private-banking lineage with an institutional-grade public-equity engagement engine. Where most European multi-family offices delegate thematic exposure to external managers, this firm manufactures its own concentrated, long-horizon strategies and binds them to an explicit stewardship playbook. The founders combined dynastic capital, direct principal involvement, and a regulatory posture as an independent Swiss asset manager — a genotype that is rare even in Geneva.