REVOR Sammelstiftung

REVOR Sammelstiftung

REVOR Sammelstiftung operates as a collective pension foundation domiciled in Bern, Switzerland, primarily serving the country's dense landscape of small and medium-sized enterprises. It functions not as a single employer's captive fund but as a multi-employer vehicle, allowing smaller firms to outsource their occupational pension obligations under the Swiss second pillar. Thomas Nydegger leads the foundation as CEO as of early 2026, succeeding longtime managing director Georg Dubach, who now serves as Senior Advisor. The office of Deputy CEO and Head of Finance is held by Joël Däppen. The investment program spans traditional Swiss pension allocations refined into a hybrid cash-balance framework. Public disclosures and Swiss commercial register filings indicate exposures across Swiss and global equities, domestic real estate — a staple of Swiss pension portfolios — alongside private credit, infrastructure, and select hedge fund allocations. Gold exposure has been explicitly noted as a portfolio diversifier. The foundation does not appear to operate direct private equity programs but gains alternative exposure through fund commitments and secondary positions. Distribution partners include regional Swiss banking institutions such as SB Saanen Bank AG and Bank Leerau Genossenschaft, both of which route employer-clients into the foundation's plans. REVOR participates in pooled engagement initiatives that signal cost-conscious, principles-aware governance. The foundation is a member of the Ethos Engagement Pool, the dominant Swiss platform for coordinated shareholder engagement on environmental, social, and governance matters, and is listed in connection with the Klima-Allianz, a Swiss civil-society network focused on climate-aligned investment frameworks. These memberships give a small-staffed collective foundation leverage in proxy voting and stewardship that would be impractical to build internally. No recent fund closes or direct-deal press releases appear in the public record. Structurally, REVOR's differentiator is classic Swiss pensions infrastructure made deliberate: a hybrid DB-DC cash-balance design that gives SME employers cost predictability while still pooling assets at a scale sufficient to negotiate institutional fund access. The succession from Dubach to Nydegger — with Däppen as continuity in the finance function — suggests a governance transition that preserved internal knowledge rather than an external restart. The foundation's reliance on regional partner banks for distribution mirrors the Swiss pension ecosystem's federated character: local relationships, centralized asset management, shared governance infrastructure.