Sunlit Amazon rainforest stream — Paloforte
Built through cycles. Built to last.
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The Firm

A Swiss investment boutique.

We run systematic equity funds and managed accounts — developed-market, large-cap only. Our proprietary algorithm is designed to generate consistent alpha through all market cycles.

Paloforte Core Equity is built to anchor institutional portfolios as their core allocation.

The Structure

The jungle is not chaotic.


It is the most sophisticated system in nature. What appears random is complexity beyond perception. Markets are no different.

We identify the structure others mistake for noise — and turn it into structural outperformance.

The Window

Every great wave of transformation follows the same pattern.

Structural change creates a window — brief, asymmetric, and enormously consequential — in which a small number of companies establish advantages that become nearly impossible to displace. They grow faster, retain more capital, and reinvest at higher returns than anyone around them. Investors who identify them early, and hold with conviction, capture the returns that define generations of wealth.

We are in one of those periods now. Artificial intelligence is restructuring every industry it touches. The energy transition is redrawing industrial maps. A new geopolitical and financial order is repricing capital, supply chains, and strategic assets. Paloforte Core Equity exists to identify these companies — systematically and early — and to compound alongside them as their advantages mature.

In the Amazon, the trees that reach the canopy do not get there by accident.

They grow faster, root deeper, and once established, are nearly impossible to displace.

We invest in their equivalent.

Investment Philosophy

A small number of companies create almost all the wealth.

The evidence is overwhelming. Bessembinder (2018), covering the entire US equity market from 1926 to 2016, found that just 4% of listed companies accounted for all net wealth creation above Treasury bills. The remaining 96% collectively matched cash.

These companies are not random. They share a recognizable profile: durable business models, advantages difficult to replicate, and positioning that lets them capture structural change ahead of the market.

The task is not to avoid losers. It is to capture enough winners that their compounding overwhelms everything else.

The Process

A five-stage engine. Systematic, rule-based, fully transparent.

Every stage is rule-based — no analyst overrides, no discretionary adjustments. The process moves from signal detection across the world's major markets to the precise calibration of each position's contribution to portfolio risk.

01 · Analytical Universe
A Structural Leadership Engine monitors securities across nine major developed-market indices. Coverage deliberately spans all capitalisations: small and mid-cap names are often the earliest to signal a structural shift, providing an edge on where the next cycle of large-cap leadership will emerge.
02 · Trend Identification & Ranking
When the engine detects a credible structural transformation, it builds a ranked list of the primary beneficiaries — on quantitative criteria alone: momentum, fundamental quality, market leadership, competitive advantage, and positioning relative to the trend. No subjective judgement enters the ranking.
03 · Investment Filter
Candidates are filtered to large-cap securities only, with a minimum capitalisation of approximately USD 30 billion. A secondary screen removes names that would raise the portfolio's risk profile beyond target parameters, regardless of size.
04 · Construction & Fine-Tuning
Each position is evaluated for its marginal contribution across a full set of institutional risk metrics. Positions are initiated at 0.5–1.0% of NAV and winners are allowed to run — within the UCITS issuer limit of 10% of net assets.
05 · Ongoing Management
Every position is monitored continuously against the same framework used for selection. When a structural signal deteriorates, the engine signals exit and capital rotates to the next identified leaders. Turnover is low by design — most positions are held for years, not quarters.

No discretionary overrides. No macro timing. No leverage.

Risk Management

Risk managed through structure, not forecasting.

Risk is not managed by prediction. It is embedded in the architecture of the portfolio itself — through diversification, systematic limits, liquidity discipline, and continuous calibration. The result is a portfolio built to absorb market stress without structural impairment.

Broad Diversification
Across 100–200 positions, so that no single holding threatens the portfolio. The cost of being wrong on any one name is structurally contained — diversified across companies, sectors, countries, and currencies.
Concentration Control
Issuer exposure is governed by the UCITS 5/10/40 rule: no single issuer may exceed 10% of net assets, and positions above 5% may not exceed 40% of the portfolio in aggregate. Companies within the same group are treated as a single issuer.
Liquidity Discipline
A large-cap, developed-market focus mitigates liquidity risk at its source. Every position can be exited at institutional scale without meaningful market impact — even under stress.
Pure Long-Only
No derivatives, no short selling, no macro timing. Downside is bounded by the equity market itself. Drawdowns are temporary dislocations, not permanent impairments.
Volatility & Beta Calibration
The portfolio is deliberately calibrated to a beta close to 1 and a volatility profile consistent with major global indices — continuously, across sector, geography, and currency.

Short-term volatility is the price of long-term compounding — accepted by design, for investors with a multi-year horizon.

The forest does not predict the storm.
It is built to survive it.

The Vehicle

Institutional in every dimension.

Strategy
Paloforte Core Equity — systematic, long-only global equity
Investment Universe
Developed-market large-cap, minimum capitalisation approximately USD 30 billion, across nine major indices
Portfolio Construction
100–200 structural leaders, built through a five-stage rule-based process with no discretionary overrides
Risk Framework
Beta calibrated close to 1, issuer concentration governed by the UCITS 5/10/40 rule, diversified across companies, sectors, countries and currencies
Approach
Long-only and unleveraged. No short selling, no derivatives, no macro timing
Liquidity
Daily dealing intended, redemption on a T+2 basis
Intended Vehicle
Luxembourg UCITS SICAV, regulated by the CSSF, with independent administration and custody
Benchmark
MSCI World Net Total Return Index
The Principle

Each adversity becomes another ring of density.

Deep in the Amazon, trees grow for centuries through relentless cycles of drought, flood, and storm. Each adversity becomes another ring of density — invisible growth that nature encodes into strength.

Paloforte Core Equity Strategy operates on this principle: systematic processes that absorb market volatility, transform adversity into opportunity, and compound performance year after year.

Built through cycles. Built to last.

The Team

Founded and led by senior investment professionals with decades of combined experience at the world's leading institutions.

Marcio Vieira
Marcio Vieira
Founder & Portfolio Manager
Marcio Vieira has spent twenty-five years at the intersection of institutional asset management and private wealth — at Société Générale Private Banking in Geneva, UBS AG in Zurich, Bank Vontobel, and Banco Santander.

The algorithm underlying Paloforte Core Equity was developed in 2007 and applied in real time, with real client capital, across nearly two decades of market history. Its longevity is intentional: investment processes earn credibility not through backtests, but through their ability to survive and adapt across changing market environments.
Maurício Charifker Schindler
Maurício Charifker Schindler
Founding Partner & Deputy Portfolio Manager
Over fifteen years advising high- and ultra-high-net-worth clients across Latin America and Europe. Previously at UBS, Credit Suisse, Vontobel, and Santander. Supports investment strategy, portfolio oversight, and the investor relationship.
Gustavo Baron
Gustavo Baron
Founding Partner · UHNW Advisory
Senior private banking professional with a fixed-income foundation and over twenty years serving sophisticated investors. Previously at J.P. Morgan, Royal Bank of Canada, Lombard Odier, and Credit Suisse. Leads UHNW advisory and client acquisition.
Thierry Casnati
Thierry Casnati
Founding Partner · CFO
Senior finance professional with over fifteen years in Swiss private banking and international client coverage. Previously at Pictet, Vontobel, and Santander. Oversees the firm's financial operations and its relationships with banks, custodians, and managed-account platforms.
Contact

For professional and institutional investors

We partner with a select group of family offices, endowments, and independent wealth managers seeking a high-conviction core equity allocation, grounded in a process applied with real capital across nearly two decades.

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Zurich, Switzerland · paloforte.com
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