Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch is the best fund manager in Switzerland according to the rating system developed by EDHEC and EuroPerformance. Its first place among 48 asset managers was awarded for its capacity to generate outperformance. The top ten Swiss asset managers were ranked by the survey: LODH, Sarasin, Swisscanto, Vontobel, Pictet, UBS, BCV Asset Management, Credit Suisse, Swiss Life and Julius Baer. The Alpha League Table 2007 Switzerland, now in its third year, rates some fifty fund management firms in Switzerland. It examines their ability to generate pure outperformance – outperformance adjusted for the risks taken by the manager – consistently and across all the equity funds that they actively manage. This rating system, developed by French business school EDHEC (Ecole De Hautes Etudes Commerciales) and EuroPerformance, a performance analysis and measurement agency for European investment funds, differs from most rating systems in that the score it attributes to each fund manager takes account of the level of outperformance realised in the different funds, and also of the ratio of funds in which this outperformance is realised. “Our chief ambition for our asset management approach is that it be global and flexible. We aim to give our fund managers the greatest possible latitude to find the best sources of alpha”, said Serge Ledermann, partner of the Private Holding Company of LODH in charge of investments. “By choosing not to adopt a unique approach to fund management, we can provide several different products within the same asset class, each relying on very different management processes,” he said.