Nannette Hechler-Fayd’herbe is Chief Investment Officer of International Wealth Management (IWM) and Global Head Economics & Research of Credit Suisse. In her role as a voting member of the Global Investment Committee, Nannette shapes and communicates the House View of Credit Suisse on the global economy and financial markets to wealth management, institutional and corporate clients.
Importantly, she also contributes to strategic and tactical asset allocation decisions that are implemented in all discretionary and advisory investment solutions of Credit Suisse. Moreover, Nannette is the architect of Credit Suisse’s thematic equity investment framework Supertrends. Nannette has been with Credit Suisse since 1999, originally joining the group as Head of Swiss Fixed Income and Credit Research at CSFB and gradually extending her responsibilities to the research coverage of all asset classes for the Private Banking division. Among her various professional engagements, Nannette was a board member of the Credit Suisse Pension Fund Switzerland and a board member of the International Capital Markets Association for several years. She also serves on the Credit Suisse Research Institute as a research director collaborating with leading academic authorities on the study of global wealth, investment returns as well as macroeconomic policy issues. Nannette received a PhD in economics in 1995 from the University of Lausanne. She is married and the mother of two children.
In her spare time, she enjoys playing the piano and likes to go sailing around the Mediterranean with her family as often as possible.