Unigestion CEO Frick: We want to be in the small but specialised camp of asset managers

What does it take to stand out from the crowd?

Fiona Frick, chief executive officer of Swiss investment house Unigestion, talks to Jayna Rana about the 'polarisation' in asset management and why politics influencing economics is here to stay.

Having worked for the firm for three decades, Fiona Frick, CEO of Unigestion, which oversees $23bn of assets, knows a thing or two about what is central to its culture - that active risk-taking is the engine of performance. She joined the firm, which caters mostly for institutional investors but plans to build its presence in the retail space across Europe, in 1990 as a fundamentals analyst covering traditional asset classes before managing high yield and convertible bond strategies. Just five years later she spearheaded the move towards equities and led the equity team until 2011, wh...