The Federal Financial Services Act («FinSA») has been in force since January 1, 2020 and focuses on improving client protection and transparency within Switzerland. FinSA and its ordinance («FinSO») apply to cases where financial services are provided in Switzerland and/or to clients resident in Switzerland. Among other things, Robeco Schweiz AG and also Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. («We») are subject to certain obligations, such as the segmentation of our clients and certain conduct obligations.
In this context, we hereby provide certain information to our clients (and to those for whom this may be of interest) in order to comply with our regulatory obligations.
You may access and download our Information Guideline by clicking on this link. The guideline will provide you with all important information about Robeco Schweiz AG, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. as well as details about the financial services and instruments offered.
Further below you will find more information about the different client segments as well as the possibilities to switch within these segments (opting-in and opting-out).
The following overview shows the different customer segments and also the respective level of customer protection:
Please note that neither Robeco Switzerland nor Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. serves Swiss private clients. However, certain Swiss private clients may opt-out to the professional client segment.
The FinSA provides a number of opting-in, respectively opting-out possibilities to clients of financial services and thus offers you different options:
Current Client segment | Opting-in- bzw. Opting-out-declaration by the client | New Client segment |
Private/ retail client |
Opting out because the retail client:
Opting-out, as the private client has assets of at least 2 million Swiss francs and is therefore considered a high net worth individual Opting-out Private investment structures with professional treasury services set up for wealthy private clients |
Professional Client |
Professional Client |
Opting-in |
Private/ retail client |
Opting-out for occupational pension schemes with professional treasury operations and other occupational pension institutions providing professional treasury operations Opting-out for companies with professional treasury operations Opting-out for Swiss or foreign collective investment schemes or their management companies, which are not deemed already as institutional client |
Institutional Client |
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Institutional Client |
Opting-in |
Professional Client |
For more information on FinSA, contact your local relationship manager or email us to rs-clientservicing@robeco.com.