Most asset managers are built for institutions; we were built for people.
In a market dominated by volume-driven régies, few firms offer truly bespoke, owner side portfolio stewardship. Manus Management was formed in Geneva to take responsibility for private property portfolios as a whole.
Our clients are affluent individuals and families whose holdings are substantial and, in most cases, spread across more than one country. Some inherited what they own. Some assembled it over thirty years and now want to hand it on without handing on a mess. The common thread is scale, and the particular difficulty of managing property when a great deal of it is owned by people who have other things to do.
What we hold to
Our commitments-
We take no money from anyone but the client.
The rétrocession is an established habit in property management. A contractor is appointed, an insurer is renewed, a commission finds its way back to the manager, and the owner is never told. We do not accept these payments in any form. Every appointment we make is tendered, and the tender documents go to the client along with our recommendation and the reasons why the cheapest bid is sometimes the wrong one.
-
We give an opinion, and we defend it.
Owners of significant wealth are surrounded by people who agree with them. Manus Management would rather be the firm that says the Nyon acquisition looks expensive at that yield and explains why, even when the owner has already fallen in love with the terrace. Where we disagree with another adviser, we say so to their face rather than in a memorandum.
-
We write for the family member who will take over in fifteen years.
Most property files are unreadable to anyone who was not in the room when they were made. Ours are kept on the assumption that at some point someone will inherit them and need to understand, without asking us, why the loan was fixed for eight years and what was agreed with the neighbour about the right of way.
-
Your affairs stay inside this office.
We do not name clients or publish transactions on this website. Our reporting travels by encrypted channels and our staff work under confidentiality obligations that survive their employment. When we describe our experience publicly, we describe it in a form nobody could trace to a person.