Pictet Asset Management has built on its relationship with SimCorp, set to use its platform to simplify its trading and operations technology platform.
James Frew, Patrice Guesnet
Since 2008, Pictet has been a SimCorp client, solely focused on back-office capabilities. However, this latest move is aimed at bolstering the efficiency of the firm’s trade execution, as well as portfolio management across its investment teams.
Speaking to The TRADE last October (2025), James Frew and Patrice Guesnet, co-heads of Pictet Asset Management fixed income trading, highlighted the importance of the SimCorp implementation, alongside continued automation.
Frew and Guesnet shared that Pictet AM uses both vendor solutions and its own proprietary systems, continually aiming to refine aspects such as trade sizing, timing, and broker selection through the use of AI-driven insights.
Specifically, the team leverages Interop.io to develop tools that support traders in their day-to-day operations and improve analytics, and SimCorp’s role as a strategic initiative “impacts the entire business from front to back, streamlining processes and future-proofing our technology stack,” explained the co-heads.
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The SimCorp One platform works to decrease the number of core systems in place, as well as introducing a unified data layer, with Pictet to leverage API connectivity to integrate the capabilities with the firm’s own in-house technology.
Implementation is set to be fully completed before Q1 2027.
Speaking in an official announcement, Oliver Johnson, chief revenue officer at SimCorp, said:“A unified data foundation empowers investment teams to make more confident investment decisions. We are excited to strengthen our partnership with Pictet Asset Management and support their investment teams with easier access to centralised, real-time data.
“SimCorp One delivers the integrated technology capabilities that help sophisticated asset managers reduce complexity across their businesses.”