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Hansjörg Schmidt
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Hansjörg Schmidt heads the Foundations department at Zürcher Kantonalbank. Together with his team, he supports and advises charitable organizations in all aspects of financial management as a banking partner. The specialist team offers comprehensive conceptual solutions, including relevant strategy and governance aspects, especially in the field of asset management, but also for financing and all other banking services.
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Inves­t­ing during turbu­lent times: how foun­da­ti­ons can avoid the biggest invest­ment mistakes

April’s stock market slump was severe – but it was compa­ra­tively mild. In Febru­ary and March 2020, the coro­na­vi­rus crisis forced...
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Resi­li­ence and adap­ta­bi­lity in endow­ment capital

Resi­li­ence in endow­ment capi­tal is worth stri­ving for, despite the risks. Risks can have any number of causes: from the...
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Swiss Phil­an­thropy Perfor­mance Index: Star­ker Einbruch in der Anla­gen-Perfor­mance von gemein­nüt­zi­gen Organisationen

Gewinne der letz­ten Jahre verflüchtigt  Manche Stif­tun­gen und Vereine können für die letz­ten fünf Jahre sogar nur noch eine «schwarze...
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Impact inves­t­ing: getting the most out of funding and investment

A tradi­tio­nal grant-giving foun­da­tion is limi­ted to two roles: inves­t­ing on the one hand, and gene­ra­ting impact on the other....
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Swiss Phil­an­thropy Perfor­mance Index: Vorjah­res­ni­veau wieder erreicht

Der Swiss Phil­an­thropy Perfor­mance Index (SwiPhiX) der beiden Koope­ra­ti­ons­part­ner StiftungSchweiz und Zürcher Kanto­nal­bank hat sich erholt und per Ende Septem­ber...
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Making perfor­mance transparent

For 2019, the average perfor­mance of the ‘Swiss Phil­an­thropy Perfor­mance Index’ (SwiPhiX) lay at 13.8 percent. The perfor­mance shows how...
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