Structured products and AMCs, engineered around investor objectives.
Vincinvest designs, structures and manages structured products and Actively Managed Certificates for qualified and institutional investors. Each idea is sourced competitively across issuers and assessed beyond its headline coupon — on barrier quality, payoff logic and how clearly the risk can be explained.
Discover moreWe turn a market view into a structure that can be defended — and we are as exacting about the risk as about the return.
Vincinvest is an independent financial engineering firm based in Chiasso, Switzerland. We work alongside investors, banks, issuers and partners across Switzerland, Europe and international markets.
Independence is not a slogan but a working model: with no paper of our own to sell, we price the same idea across multiple issuers and retain the terms most suitable for the investor's objective.
What we engineer
From a single idea to a documented, executed and monitored product — across the full structured-products workflow.
Structured products
Design, pricing and payoff analysis across the full spectrum — reverse convertibles, autocallables, phoenix and capital-protected notes — calibrated to each client's objective.
- Reverse Convertibles
- Autocallables
- Worst-of Phoenix
- Capital Protected
- Express / Step-down
Actively Managed Certificates
End-to-end AMC design and development: basket construction, strategy implementation, platform set-up and ongoing lifecycle management.
- Basket design
- Platform set-up
- Lifecycle management
Advisory & idea generation
Market-driven ideas, independent evaluation of terms, and timely reinvestment when a product is called or matures.
- Issuer comparison
- Term evaluation
- Reinvestment
What makes a structure good
A competitive coupon is the easy part. The quality of a structure lives in three places — and we judge every idea against all three before it reaches a client.
Barrier defensibility
A coupon means little if the barrier sits just below recent lows. We build protection beneath historical stress, not merely beneath spot — so the buffer is real when markets are not calm.
Basket coherence
Underlyings are chosen for how they behave together, not just how they look apart. Correlation and worst-of risk are designed into the basket, never inherited by accident.
Risk explainability
A structure has to make sense to the investor who holds it. If the risk cannot be explained cleanly and defended honestly, it is not a structure we would put forward.
And the discipline beneath all three: every annualised return is stated explicitly — simple versus compound — price performance is never confused with the quality of an underlying, and we prefer silence to any figure we cannot verify.
A disciplined, end-to-end process
From the first idea to the final observation, a clear sequence — so an outcome never rests on luck, memory or a missed date.
Origination & idea
Reading the market for asymmetric opportunities and translating views into investable angles.
Structuring
Calibrating barrier, coupon, autocall and step-down to balance return with protection.
Issuer selection
Sourcing competitive pricing across multiple issuers with a transparent, issuer-neutral process.
Execution
Clean, fully documented execution with clarity on every term and assumption.
Monitoring
Tracking observation dates, coupons and autocalls — and structuring timely reinvestment.
Typical mandates
A sense of the day-to-day work — the kind of questions investors and partners bring to us.
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Why clients work with us
Issuer-neutral pricing
With no product of our own, we put issuers in competition on every idea and retain the most suitable terms for the investor's objective.
Defensible structures
Barriers assessed against historical stress, coherent baskets and risk we can explain — structures that hold up to scrutiny, not just to a sales pitch.
Lifecycle discipline
We stay with a product after trade date — observation dates, coupons, autocalls and timely reinvestment, all tracked and acted on.
We do not start from a product. We start from a market view, test whether the payoff is worth the risk, and only then decide whether a structure deserves to be shown to an investor.
Let's structure something precise.
For pricing requests, product ideas or a conversation about your objectives, reach out directly.
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