Swiss-based institutional asset investment manager Unigestion has opened up an office in Toronto.
Heather Cooke, formerly a partner at Mercer, has been appointed to lead the office and her title is director, institutional clients.
She will be responsible for building awareness of the company’s offering throughout the institutional investor community in Canada and for driving business across all of its investment solutions. She has more than 20 years of experience in investment management, sales and research.
Unigestion says the opening of the Toronto office is a major development in its expansion beyond its traditional European markets and demonstrates the firm’s desire to be close to where clients are located.
The company has $16 billion in assets under management and is focused on offering investment solutions and services to institutional investors across four core investment strategies: risk managed equities, private assets, alternative investments and cross asset solutions.