The story
1990s and 2000s
The group was founded in 1993 by Martin Bisang, Jürg Schäppi, Hans-Jörg Graf, Daniel Schlatter, and Dieter Albrecht. Martin Bisang is still the largest shareholder. Through its subsidiary Bank am Bellevue the group became an important provider in brokerage and block deals on the Swiss market.
Swissfirst AG, which was also founded in 1993, became part of Bellevue Group in December 2006, and later merged into Bellevue Group.
2010s
In the first half of the 2010s, Bellevue Group persistently declining profit margins and thus amended their strategy to focus on institutional asset management.
In 2014, Bellevue Group acquired the investment funds Adamant Biomedical Investments from Zurich Cantonal Bank. The merger of Bellevue Asset Management and Adamant took place on 1 January 2015. As a result of the acquisition, the assets under management increased by CHF 831 million to CHF 3.9 billion.
With the acquisition of the asset manager StarCapital AG in 2016, founded in 1996 and based in the Frankfurt am Main area, for an estimated CHF 30 to 40 million, the Bellevue Group aimed to increase its presence in Germany. The acquisition included their product range with managed client assets of around CHF 2.5 billion, consisting of ETF strategies as well as global equity, bond, and asset management funds.
As part of restructuring and refocusing, Bellevue Group discontinued its brokerage and corporate finance activities in 2017.
Effective 1 January 2018, Bellevue Group's subsidiary StarCapital acquired the German investment company Mars Asset Management to expand its business with institutional investors. Together with the client assets managed by Mars Asset Management amounting to €320 million (approximately CHF 370 million), the total managed assets in the area of rule-based strategies rose to over €0.5 billion (CHF 0.47 billion) following the acquisition.
In 2018, the venture capital fund BB Pureos Bioventures was established, which is registered on the Channel Island of Guernsey and focuses on the development of new biological active substances for medicines targeting indications with high medical need such as nucleic acid, cell- and gene therapies.
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Also in 2018, Bellevue Group launched the BB Adamant Sustainable Healthcare fund.
In 2019, Bellevue Group sold its stake in the Swiss stock exchange SIX Group to Credit Suisse. In the same year, the Private Market Investments division was established within the group, through which the business areas private equity and private equity funds were added. In this context, the Adbodmer AG, founded in 2001 by Adriana Ospel-Bodmer, the wife of former UBS President Marcel Ospel, became part of the Bellevue Group.
In 2019, the subsidiary Bank am Bellevue was sold to the Luxembourg KBL Group, thereby abandoning the private client business that had been built up in previous years. KBL (Quintet Private Bank since 2020) took over both the staff and the client base, managing assets of CHF 1.6 billion. With the sale, Bellevue became a pure asset manager.
2020s
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, there was a heightened demand for investments in the health sector, and the operating result increased by around 15% to CHF 17.5 million in the first half of 2020. In 2021, the company achieved its best-ever results, with a revenue of CHF 140.6 million and a profit of CHF 43.1 million, representing a 93% increase in net profit.
Primarily due to rising interest rates, which also affected small biotech companies in which the Bellevue Group invests, the market conditions weakened again in 2022. In 2023, the company's profit was CHF 8 million, which was primarily attributed to the investment slump in the healthcare sector.
In 2022, Star Capital was integrated into Bellevue Group with Bellevue's German business entirely managed from Frankfurt from this point on. After former owner Peter Huber had left the company, assets under management were considerably reduced. In the same year, Bellevue Group started to expand into Asia.
In November 2023, the Bellevue Group launched the globally oriented equity fund Bellevue Obesity Solutions, consisting of companies in the fields of nutrition and exercise that are addressing obesity; the idea behind the establishment of Bellevue Obesity Solutions is that, due to the growing obesity rates in the global population, this market will gain relevance over the next decade. Additionally, the fund Bellevue AI Health (Lux) was launched, which focuses on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the investment opportunities arising from it in the healthcare sector.
Since June 2025, Veit de Maddalena has been chairman and CEO of Bellevue Group. Previously, Gebhard Giselbrecht served as the CEO. Before that, he worked at Credit Suisse. Giselbrecht had succeeded André Rüegg, who had held the position for eight years prior to him. The position of chief financial officer was filled by Stefano Montalbano, starting in March 2024. As of June 2025, Markus Peter, who previously served as the Head Investments at Bellevue Group from 2009, and as a member of the Group Executive Board since 2024, has been appointed as CEO of Bellevue Asset Management, the largest operational subsidiary of Bellevue Group.
In September 2025, Bellevue launched its first actively managed healthcare ETF, which provides exposure to the healthcare asset class through an exchange-traded investment vehicle.
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