Nicholas Daxelhoffer is a Zurich-based investment professional with over 35 years of experience in financial markets. A former Director at Pictet Asset Management, he was among the first practitioners in Switzerland to pursue and earn the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation in the early 1990s — at a time when systematic technical analysis was still considered a frontier discipline.

Drawn by the emerging academic research on the momentum factor — most notably the landmark 1993 work of Jegadeesh & Titman, who demonstrated that strategies systematically buying recent winners generate persistent excess returns — he went on to successfully launch an investment vehicle for institutional clients. The fund later fell victim to the circumstances surrounding the Global Financial Crisis, as both management and clients questioned the viability of the concept at precisely the moment it deserved most conviction.

That experience, far from diminishing his belief in momentum, deepened it. Since establishing his independent practice in 2016, Nicholas has been developing what he considers the definitive expression of his investment philosophy.