Pictet Research Institute

Pictet Research Institute

Based in Geneva, the Pictet Research Institute is a Group-wide capability dedicated to research with long-term implications for investment. It will engage in topics ranging from macro- and geopolitics to portfolio implementation solutions.

Long-term thinking

Launched at the beginning of 2024, the Institute is a strategic initiative meant to strengthen our investment leadership. The Institute focuses on producing research on long-term investment topics, including strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk premia, capital market structures, global economic and investment trends, as well as sustainability.

The Pictet Research Institute, through expert investigations, enables us to better understand and adapt to the long-term implications of the development of the economic and market environment. It has its own dedicated staff of PhD-level researchers and also collaborates with select academics and think tanks as well as draw on the Pictet Group’s internal experts.

Maria Vassalou, PhD, Head of the Pictet Research Institute

Our research focus is long-term and strategic, rather than tactical, aiming to drive innovation in our investment thinking, processes, and offerings for the benefit of our clients and investment professionals.

— Maria Vassalou

The Pictet Research Institute is led by Maria Vassalou, PhD, who joined Pictet from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she was co-CIO of Multi-Asset Solutions. She holds a PhD in Financial Economics from London Business School.

Her 30 years of experience as both an academic and investment professional in the asset management industry, will be instrumental in the production of original research.

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About our research

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“It’s time for a complete reset” – Maria Vassalou on the future of investing

Maria Vassalou, PhD
Head of the Pictet Reasearch Institute

Global rules are being rewritten. Pictet’s Maria Vassalou joins IMD President David Bach to discuss BRICS, AI, aging societies – and why leaders must rethink everything they thought they knew.

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7 August 2025

BRICS+ and contested global leadership in an era of great power competition: implications for investment management

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Maria Vassalou, PhD
Pictet Research Institute

Chris Alden, PhD
London School of Economics

March 2025

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BRICS as disruptors of the global system

Maria Vassalou, PhD
Head of the Pictet Research Institute

On the Sino-US competition and why the shift in growth drivers from the West to the BRICS warrants a rethink of the global investment playbook.

31 July 2025

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