Bespoke Wealth

Lombard Odier provides a complete palette of wealth management services including among others succession planning, discretionary and advisory portfolio management for clients globally. Plans for Oman include building contacts with institutions and business families, says Patrick Odier, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd and Senior Managing Partner at Lombard Odier Group, who was on a visit to Muscat, in an interview with Oommen John P.

- Oommen John P

Can you share details of Lombard Odier’s operations?

Lombard Odier is a leading global wealth and asset manager focused on providing solutions to private and institutional clients as well as to other financial institutions. For 220 years, the firm has been solely dedicated to serving clients and forged a strong tradition of innovation in the way it advises clients, manages investment strategies and develops new technologies.

With a strong Swiss heritage and yet distinctly international, Lombard Odier is an independent, privately owned and fully self-financed private bank. With a focus on bespoke wealth and asset management services for private and institutional clients, Lombard Odier is one of the best capitalised banks in the world with a long standing tradition of innovation. Since we were founded in 1796, we have safely navigated over 40 crises: the 1929 Wall Street Crash, two World Wars, the Dot Com bubble, the 2008 financial crisis and more.

Does the bank have a presence in the GCC and Oman in particular?