Conference speaker
Grégoire Haenni
Chief Investment Officer
CPEG - Caisse de prévoyance de l’Etat de Genève
Grégoire Haenni is Chief Investment Officer of the CPEG - Caisse de prévoyance de l’Etat de Genève, which he joined in June 2014. He is responsible for the pension fund’s asset allocation. Prior to that, he was the CIO of the CERN Pension Fund, the European organisation for nuclear research, where he remained for almost five years. During this time, he put in place an investment framework today acknowledged as the CERN Investment Model. Before that, he headed the research and investment department of Bank of China (Suisse) Fund Management. He also founded Bedrock Alternative Asset Management, a subsidiary of Bedrock Group, where he led the research and portfolio management activities. From 2001 to 2007, Haenni was a fund manager and a senior analyst at Pictet & Cie’s alternative investment department. He started his career in 1997 as a financial analyst and portfolio manager at Merchiston Management. He holds a PhD in mathematical statistics of the Econometrics Department of the University of Geneva where he specialised in multi-dimensional statistics, lecturing to BSc and MSc students.
