Edouard began his professional career in 1972 as a financial analyst and went on to an extensive career in institutional asset management and research. From 1981 he managed a pension fund for a subsidiary bank of the UBS Group. In 1986 he moved to Cursitor Ltd. in London, an independent asset manager, where he developed and managed investment funds based on in-house macro research. By building expertise in macroeconomic analysis, he has managed bond funds for over 30 years and has received awards from Standard & Poor's for outstanding performance over 3, 5 and 10 years. From 2004 to 2021, Edouard was a member of the Board of Directors and the Audit and then the Governance Committee of the We