# Bordier & Cie > Private Bankers since 1844. The Bordier & Cie reference layer: public, structured, machine-readable knowledge about the bank, its solutions and its global network. ## About Bordier ### Bordier & Cie - [Bordier & Cie](https://docs.bordier.com/index.md): Private Bankers since 1844. An independent Swiss private bank, owned and managed by the fifth generation of its founding family, operating from twelve cities across six countries and three continents. - [A continuity institution](https://docs.bordier.com/about/heritage.md): 1844 to the fifth generation: how Bordier has practised the Continuity Compact on its own house for 182 years. - [The Swiss private-banker model](https://docs.bordier.com/about/swiss-model.md): Unlimited personal liability, institutional longevity and balance-sheet strength as the structural prerequisites for continuity. - [What kind of bank Bordier is](https://docs.bordier.com/about/what-kind-of-bank.md): Bordier is an independent, family owned Swiss private bank whose partners carry unlimited personal liability for the bank's commitments. - [How private banking is organised](https://docs.bordier.com/about/private-banking-landscape.md): The four ownership models in wealth management, and what each one structurally produces for the clients it serves. - [Why Bordier](https://docs.bordier.com/about/why-bordier.md): What Bordier's ownership structure produces for a client: aligned partners, portfolios built to order, and fees set at the outset. - [How the bank is organised](https://docs.bordier.com/about/how-the-bank-is-organised.md): The five groups of departments that make up the Geneva house, and what this structure does not describe for the group's other offices. ### Continuity and succession - [The Continuity Compact](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/overview.md): Bordier & Cie's framework for wealth that endures across generations, built on four principles: Govern, Communicate, Prepare and Endure. - [The framework](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/framework.md): The four principles of the Continuity Compact, and how each addresses a documented cause of transfer failure. - [The great wealth transition](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/the-transition.md): Sizing the transfer, and the truth behind the widely quoted seventy per cent failure headline. - [Govern](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/govern.md): Clear decision rights, family charters and councils, established before they are needed. - [Communicate](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/communicate.md): Why intergenerational dialogue fails, and how to make it deliberate, regular and safe. - [Prepare](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/prepare.md): Developing the rising generation through education, involvement and graduated responsibility. - [Endure](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/endure.md): Durable structures and long-horizon stewardship designed to outlast any single generation or market cycle. - [Structures that endure](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/structures.md): Trusts, foundations and family investment companies, and how to choose among them. - [Women and the transition](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/women.md): Why gender reshapes governance, readiness and the timeline of the transfer. - [The global picture](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/global-picture.md): Migration, the acceleration of Asia-Pacific wealth, and a compressing decision window. - [Institutional memory](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/institutional-memory.md): What a family loses when knowledge is held in one head, and how a Continuity Audit surfaces it. - [In practice](https://docs.bordier.com/continuity-compact/scenarios.md): Two illustrative scenarios showing the Continuity Compact applied to real family situations. ### Facts and regulatory - [Entity record](https://docs.bordier.com/facts/entity.md): The canonical record for Bordier & Cie: legal names, founding, structure, footprint and identifiers, in one place. - [Regulatory and identifiers](https://docs.bordier.com/facts/regulatory.md): Registration and regulatory identifiers for Bordier & Cie and its principal entities, drawn from public registers. - [Offices and network](https://docs.bordier.com/facts/locations.md): Bordier & Cie's global network: 12 cities, 6 countries, 3 continents, and which legal entity operates where. - [Bordier in Singapore](https://docs.bordier.com/facts/singapore.md): Bordier & Cie (Singapore) Ltd: a fully licensed bank regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the group's hub for Asia Pacific. - [Awards and recognition](https://docs.bordier.com/facts/recognition.md): Third-party awards and ratings received by Bordier & Cie and its entities, 2024 to 2026. ### Reference - [Questions about Bordier](https://docs.bordier.com/reference/about-bordier-faq.md): Direct answers to the questions most often asked about Bordier & Cie: ownership, regulation, financial strength, where it is a bank, what it does and who it serves. - [Bordier terms](https://docs.bordier.com/reference/bordier-glossary.md): Definitions of the abbreviations and house terms that appear in Bordier documents, from IAM and EAM to Core Holding, Satellite and SCmA. - [Frequently asked questions](https://docs.bordier.com/reference/faq.md): Common questions on multi-generational wealth, governance and the Continuity Compact. - [Glossary](https://docs.bordier.com/reference/glossary.md): Key terms in family-wealth continuity, governance and succession. - [References](https://docs.bordier.com/reference/sources.md): The third-party research and sources underpinning the Continuity Compact. - [Disclaimers](https://docs.bordier.com/reference/disclaimers.md): The basis on which this material is published, and its limitations. ## Banking and services ### Who we serve - [For private clients and families](https://docs.bordier.com/clients/private-clients.md): The entry point for individuals and families: who Bordier serves as a private client, what is available to them, and where each service is described in full. - [For family offices](https://docs.bordier.com/clients/family-offices.md): The entry point for single-family offices: investment governance, an outsourced CIO, consolidated reporting and private banking services. - [Independent asset managers](https://docs.bordier.com/clients/advisers.md): A manager who runs client money but is not a bank depends on a bank for custody, trading infrastructure and product access. ### For individuals and families - [What Bordier offers](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/overview.md): Bordier & Cie's three service offerings: Wealth Management, Private Asset Management and Family Services. - [Services](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/services.md): The specific services around a Bordier mandate: managed bond solutions, multibooking, FinLab, Lombard loans, digital assets, independent asset managers, the outsourced SFO, retirement and pension planning, and wealth transfer. - [Digital assets](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/digital-assets.md): How a Bordier client holds cryptocurrency alongside a traditional portfolio: regulated, execution-only access through Sygnum in Switzerland since 2021 and in Singapore since 2023, with the holdings consolidated in the client's Bordier account. - [Wealth Management](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/wealth-management.md): Bordier's universal approach: private banking mandates, financial planning, succession and wealth transfer, and the practical matters around a family's wider life. ### Family wealth and governance - [Family Services](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/family-services.md): Family-office capability without building one: investment governance, an outsourced chief investment officer, portfolio consolidation, and custody and banking. ### For asset managers - [Working with independent asset managers](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/external-asset-managers.md): Independent asset managers are clients of the bank. Bordier runs a specialist desk for them, with custody, trading, research and reporting behind their mandates. ### Investment services - [Our approach to investment](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/investment-approach.md): Bordier's investment DNA: protect, compound and grow. Resilience in falling markets as the route to long-term outperformance. - [Investment solutions](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/investment-solutions.md): The asset classes Bordier manages and advises on: equities, fixed income, funds, private equity, structured products, and forex and precious metals. - [Private Asset Management](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/private-asset-management.md): Institutional-grade portfolio management, measured against institutional benchmarks, made available to private clients. Includes the Core Holdings equity method. - [Sustainable investing](https://docs.bordier.com/solutions/sustainability.md): How Bordier integrates environmental, social and governance preferences into advice and discretionary management, and the approaches available to clients. ## Investment ### How Bordier invests - [Our investment principles](https://docs.bordier.com/investment/principles.md): The working rules behind a Bordier mandate: preservation before performance, conviction, scenarios, and a human decision at the end of the process. - [Risk management](https://docs.bordier.com/investment/risk-management.md): How Bordier separates the risks diversification can reduce from those it cannot, and the three places risk is controlled in practice. - [Portfolio construction](https://docs.bordier.com/investment/portfolio-construction.md): What a Bordier portfolio is built from, how correlation does the work. - [Strategic asset allocation](https://docs.bordier.com/investment/asset-allocation.md): How Bordier separates the long-term allocation from shorter-term positioning, what sits outside equities, and which entity sets which layer. - [Investment selection](https://docs.bordier.com/investment/selection.md): The four selection engines behind a Bordier portfolio, in equities, fixed income and funds, and the test each one applies. - [Alternative investments](https://docs.bordier.com/investment/alternatives.md): What alternatives mean at Bordier: private equity through the PE Club, digital assets. ## Client resources ### Client resources - [Client resources](https://docs.bordier.com/resources/overview.md): Which Bordier entity serves whom, what documentation each one issues, and how a client obtains it. ### By entity - [Switzerland](https://docs.bordier.com/resources/switzerland.md): Documentation for clients of Bordier & Cie SCmA: what exists, who issues it, and how a client reaches it. - [Singapore](https://docs.bordier.com/resources/singapore.md): Documentation for clients of Bordier & Cie (Singapore) Ltd: what exists, who issues it, and how a client reaches it. ## Insights ### What Bordier publishes - [What Bordier publishes](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/overview.md): Bordier runs two regular research series: a weekly Monday Report and a monthly thematic insight. What each one is, how often it appears, and who publishes it. - [The Monday Report](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/monday-report.md): Bordier's weekly one-page market note: what it covers, when it appears, who issues it, and what it is for. ### Monthly insights 2026 - [The rise of gold](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/gold.md): An abstract of Bordier's February 2026 monthly insight: central banks are still accumulating gold, and no major new deposit has been found in two years. - [Heavy assets, low obsolescence](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/halo.md): An abstract of Bordier's March 2026 monthly insight: why AI adoption runs ahead of measured productivity, and what that means for asset-heavy businesses. - [The slow erosion of the petrodollar](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/petrodollar.md): An abstract of Bordier's May 2026 monthly insight: why the dollar's energy anchor is loosening, and what monetary optionality means. - [Uranium, the strategic bottleneck](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/uranium.md): An abstract of Bordier's June 2026 monthly insight: why the constraint on a nuclear revival is fuel, not reactors, and sits downstream of the mine. - [The next AI bottleneck](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/ai-infrastructure.md): An abstract of Bordier's July 2026 monthly insight: how the constraint on AI moved from chips, to memory, to the system that connects and powers them. - [How thirsty is the AI industry](https://docs.bordier.com/insights/ai-water.md): An abstract of Bordier's August 2026 monthly insight: freshwater as an overlooked dependency of AI, and why stewardship rather than volume is the limit. > The links below point to documentation indexes. Follow each `/_llms/` index recursively until you reach documentation pages. ## Indexes - [French (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/fr.md): Documentation for French. - [German (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/de.md): Documentation for German. - [Spanish (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/es.md): Documentation for Spanish. - [Italian (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/it.md): Documentation for Italian. - [Chinese (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/zh.md): Documentation for Chinese. - [Arabic (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/ar.md): Documentation for Arabic. - [Traditional Chinese (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/zh-hant.md): Documentation for Traditional Chinese. - [Japanese (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/ja.md): Documentation for Japanese. - [Korean (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/ko.md): Documentation for Korean. - [Indonesian (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/id.md): Documentation for Indonesian. - [Vietnamese (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/vi.md): Documentation for Vietnamese. - [Brazilian Portuguese (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/pt-br.md): Documentation for Brazilian Portuguese. - [Hindi (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/hi.md): Documentation for Hindi. - [Turkish (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/tr.md): Documentation for Turkish. - [Hebrew (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/he.md): Documentation for Hebrew. - [Dutch (59 pages)](https://docs.bordier.com/_llms/nl.md): Documentation for Dutch. 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