Banque Bonhôte
Management
Jean Berthoud ( Chairman )
The Banque Bonhôte & Cie SA is a company established in 1815 Neuchâtel private bank with a focus on financial planning and asset management.
History
1815 Louis Petitmaître founded the first private bank in Neuchâtel. In 1872, his son Louis succeeds. 1895 opened the cashier together with Paul Bonhôte Banque Antenen Bonhôte & Cie, the Banque Bonhôte & Cie in 1903. 1936 joined Claude Bonhôte succeeded his father. He led the bank until he sold it in 1988 to a local financial and industrial holding company.
1992 became the financial institution its character as a private bank with the acquisition of the entire capital by Jean Berthoud and related persons back. Jean Berthoud took over the General Directorate of the Bank as of that date, until he was elected Chairman. He continued the long bank and family tradition that can be traced back to 1785.
Yves de Montmollin takes over in 2014, the Directorate General of the Bank. The Executive Board is composed of Jean -Paul Jeckelmann, Olivier Richard Vollenweider and Robin.
Headquarter and branches
The registered office of the Bank is located in Neuchatel, with offices in Biel since 2004 and in Geneva in January 2009. On 16 June 2011, the Banque Bonhôte announced the opening of a new branch office at Theater Square in Berne. Jürg Legler was appointed responsible for the region of Bern.
The grand town house in Neuchatel, where the Banque Bonhôte has its headquarters, was built in 1839. It is located on the lakeshore and is an important part of history and the architectural tradition of the city of Neuchâtel.
The Geneva office is located in a listed building next to the Place Neuve and the Grand Théâtre ( opera house). The business activities of the Geneva office focuses on asset management, with a focus on exclusive and individual multidisciplinary service.
Operations
The Bank has the real estate fund Bonhôte -Immobilier founded in 2006, which has subsequently taken over the troubled Dynamic Real Estate Fund ( DREF ). Since this acquisition ranks Bonhôte -Immobilier among the Big West Swiss real estate funds with assets of around CHF 800 million by mid-2011.
Indicators
Franken - In April 2011, the share capital of 5'250'000 francs, divided into 5,250 fully paid registered shares of CHF 100 each, respectively. The profits of the bank earnings in 2007 amounted to 21.4 million, and in 2008 to 19.2 million francs.
The net profit of the bank reached 2.29 million francs in late 1998. End of 2006 there were 3.73 million, 5.13 million and the end of 2007 francs. In the first half of 2006, the profit amounted to CHF 4.2 million, representing an increase of 98%. 2007 were achieved 4 million francs profit, in 2008 there were 3 million francs.
The end of 1998, total assets amounted to 50.3 million francs. June 30, 2006, total assets reached 140 million Swiss francs, compared with 129 million at end- 2005. At the end of December 2007, total assets amounted to 118 million francs, and by the end of December 2008 to 209 million francs.
The end of 1998, the Bank employed 18 people. In 2008 she built the headcount from 52 to 57 people, and the middle of 2009 it employed about sixty employees.
Board and Management
In 1999, the former FDP parliamentarians Yann Richter, the former National Bank Director Jean Zwahlen, Board of Directors at Paribas and UBP, and Erwin Meyer, a specialist lender of West Swiss companies represented on the Board of the Bank. Nicolas Wavre, founder of the technology company Etel in Môtiers, was chairman until 2009.
The end of 2009 occurs Jean Berthoud, main shareholder and chief executive of the bank, from his functions as a director back and is Chairman of the Board of the Bank. Thomas Lötscher was appointed Director-General.
2011, the Governing Body in accordance with the commercial register of Neuchâtel as follows: Berthoud Jean Louis- George, Val -de- Travers and Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Chairman, Guinand Jean -Jacques Henri Albert, of Brenets, in Zurich, Meyer Erwin, of Geneva, Geneva, Berthoud François Jean Etienne, France, in Neuilly -sur -Seine, France, Letellier Marie- Noëlle Suzanne, of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Ranft Mark, from Basel, in Ried wood, Wavre Nicolas Paul André, from Neuchâtel, in Boudry, Stulz René Marcel, from Tafers, in Colombus, OH, USA. Secretary General was Barnaud Jacques, France, in Neuchâtel.
In 2011, Jean Berthoud is chairman of the bank. He joined the end of 2010 the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bankers Association.