Urs von Arx

Mr. Urs von Arx is a Portfolio Manager at Valex Capital AG.
Formerly worked as a research associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and at the University of Zurich for many years, dealing with the recording of risk factors of shares and measuring the performance of sustainable investments.
Before this time, he worked as an analyst and portfolio manager with various banks for almost twenty years.
In 2001 and 2002, he was the co-manager of various funds and mandates of Swiss shares at Bank Pictet.
In the previous years, he managed the Swiss equity fund at ABN AMRO and was, among other things, co-manager of the bank’s pension fund.
He started his career in the banking sector began in 1986 when he joined Zürcher Kantonalbank.
He initially headed the Quantitative Analysis and Bond Research groups before being entrusted with the management of the foreign currency fund.