Data studies on the Swiss private market
Original research built on the full Swiss Commercial Register — every active company, every canton. Register-grounded, verifiable, and cited to the source.
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The Swiss Wealth-Manager Consolidation
Switzerland's independent wealth managers survived a regulatory reckoning that cut their number from roughly 2,500 to about 1,500. They now face a demographic one. In an industry built by founders in the 1990s and 2000s, 56% of firms are run by three people or fewer — and, on the industry's own estimate, half of all principals reach retirement within a decade. This is a register-grounded map of who they are, where they are, what they manage, and why the next ten years belong to the consolidators.
Boardroom Paralysis in Switzerland
A national analysis of all 432,445 active companies in the Swiss Commercial Register finds that 32% of audited SMEs — and 41% in French-speaking Switzerland — would be unable to execute a single legally binding act the day their principal signatory dies. The fragility is structural, observable in open data today, and concentrated along the country's linguistic divide.
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