Celestin Pepin – Invescap SA
Since 2023, Celestin Pepin has been an associate at Invescap SA, Geneva. In this role, he led a team in the design and implementation of a US private credit investment strategy that focused on providing working capital; as part of this task, he developed marketing material and presented the strategy to prospective investors and conducted quantitative model portfolio simulations that resulted in increased investment and risk management efficiency.
Before moving to his current position, Mr Pepin was a junior associate at Invescap from 2022 to 2023. As such, he developed and sold private asset strategies for professional clients and created and implemented private fund performance calculation and amortisation methods and instruments for an institutional client.
Swiss Armed Forces
Mr Pepin has served in the Swiss Armed Forces since 2017 in various bases throughout Switzerland. Now a first lieutenant, during his service he has spent four weeks deployed as a trilingual platoon leader of 56 soldiers to benefit an engineering and rescue company in 2018, and he was deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic with responsibility for the operational setup and organisational planning related to a military hospital to support the pandemic response efforts in 2020.
Education
As well as successfully working towards a BA degree in economics at the University of St. Gallen (which he was awarded in 2022), Mr Pepin has passed all three levels of the CFA Program at Geneva’s CFA Institute. He is hoping to be awarded the CFA charter later in 2025, following completion of the relevant work experience. Mr Pepin’s bachelor’s degree thesis, titled Effects of the Quantitative Easing Program on the US Stock Market During the COVID-19 Crisis, was published by the University of St. Gallen, something which is only done for the highest graded theses.
Hobbies & Interests
Mr Pepin is multi-lingual and holds both Canadian and Swiss citizenship. To relax, he enjoys a range of hobbies including sailing, going to the gym, learning languages, running, cooking and travelling – the latter is something he particularly enjoys, having visited more than 100 countries so far. He also likes to visit the theatre, citing his favourite musical as West Side Story; listening to music; and reading. He takes a keen interest in economic history and finance, particularly private assets or real assets that offer diversification to bonds and stocks, and he is also interested in behavioural finance. Mr Pepin is a member of the HSGAlumniAnciens de St.Gall, the Offiziersverein HSG Alumni and the Transfusion Interregionale CRS, the latter in his capacity as a blood donor.
He recently started volunteering with the Swiss Red Cross, helping children from war-torn countries who were granted asylum in Switzerland to adapt to the school system, learn French and complete their homework.
