History

Swisscanto Holding was founded in 1993 as an umbrella company for all jointly managed asset management and pensions business of the cantonal banks. Its roots therefore lie in the joint ventures that were already active in these areas, above all in the Swisscanto Investment Foundation based in Zurich , founded in 1973 , and the Servisa Collective Foundation based in Basel , founded in the same year together with the insurance company Helvetia.

While the investment foundation took over the collective management of assets entrusted to it by Swiss pension funds and by holders of vested benefits and Savings 3 accounts, the collective foundation offered corporate customers products and services in the area of ​​occupational pension plans.

In 1983 , Swisscanto Vorsorge AG was founded with the participation of all cantonal banks for the development and distribution of pension products and services in the area of ​​occupational pension provision . The Swisscanto Funds Center Ltd. was founded in 1987 as an international base for international securities trading by the cantonal banks. based in London.

With the founding of Swisscanto Holding in 1993, the cantonal banks brought most of their fund and asset management business into the financial holding company, which from then on served as a fund management company. In the same year, Swisscanto Asset Management AG, based in Zurich, was founded as a specialist in the area of ​​institutional asset management.
Since 2005, all joint ventures of the cantonal banks united under the umbrella of Swisscanto Holding have appeared under the common umbrella brand Swisscanto.

On December 10, 2014, the cantonal banks decided to transfer the Swisscanto Group to the Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) with retroactive effect from July 1, 2014. All shares are to be sold to the Zürcher Kantonalbank.