The firm – founded a quarter of a century ago – now has a total of 11 offices worldwide.

Partners Capital, a London-headquartered group with more than $77 billion in AuM, has opened a Zurich office, its 11th office worldwide and coming after it opened an office in Abu Dhabi in May. The opening coincides with the firm’s 25th anniversary year.

The office’s leader, Jean-Claude Garo, joined Partners Capital in 2025. He spent the preceding 15 years at Spectrum Value Management, one of the largest single-family offices of a Swiss industrial family.

Partners Capital looks after more than 600 clients across endowments, foundations, prominent families, and senior investment professionals including: INSEAD Business School, Eton College, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Guggenheim Foundation, The Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, and senior executives from investment firms.

Explaining its rationale for opening a Zurich office, Partners Capital Investment Group – to give its full name – said “Switzerland represents one of the most significant concentrations of multi-generational private wealth and institutional capital in the world.”

“Alongside its well-established base of family offices, charitable foundations, and pension funds, Switzerland is home to a large and growing community of senior investment professionals whose complex portfolios and evolving governance needs are increasingly aligned with the sophisticated portfolio construction, investment selection and alignment of interests that Partners Capital was founded to deliver,” it said. 

“Our formal expansion in Switzerland grows out of years partnering with some of the world’s most disciplined and thoughtful investors,” Arjun Raghavan, CEO of Partners Capital, said. “The sophisticated investing landscape, depth of relationships, and a shared conviction in patient, long-term capital makes Switzerland a natural place to deepen our presence and partner with the country’s leading institutions and families as they pursue their investment ambitions.”
The business was founded in 2001. It employs more than 400 people across its 11 offices in Boston, London, Abu Dhabi, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, and now Zürich. 

See an interview we published in October 2024 with the firm about its approaches to investment.