Edith Aldewereld
Sustainability Advisor
ACATIS Fair Value Investment AG
Co-Founder | WISF International (Women in Sustainable Finance)

Edith Aldewereld is dedicated to her vision to leverage sustainable finance and private capital in order to create a positive impact in a way that the people living on our planet today can meet their needs and potential without comprimising the ability of future generations to meet their own. She strongly believes in the power of co-creation and therefore connects internationally with the right partners to leverage on each others‘ strengths.

Over the last 25 years she has built extensive knowledge in asset management and international private banking. At Sonnenberg Wealth Management AG, where she is a partner since July 2015, she has created together with the Investment Team sustainable investment solutions next to the already existing classic solutions. In addition to her work at Sonnenberg she co-founded with the University of Zurich the course ‘Sustainable Investments in Wealth Management’. Since January 2019 she is involved in ACATIS Fair Value Investment AG as a sustainable investment advisor. She co-founded the international organisation Women In Sustainable Finance in December 2018. Edith is involved in financial coaching for women to help women to unlock their potential and to help them to invest their wealth in a sustainable way.

She holds Advisory Board positions at the We Share Forward Foundation Home – We Share (weshareforward.org) and Believe (Sustainable Investment and Positive Impact Opportunities | Believe Partners) and is part of the founding group 100Women@Davos (100 Women @ Davos | Impact -driven Women Leaders (100womendavos.com)), a Community of Impact-Driven Women CEOS, Leaders and Changemakers.

From 2001 to 2015, Mrs. Aldewereld served in various positions in asset management and private banking at ABN AMRO Bank (Switzerland) and later at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP Ltd) in Zurich. As a senior portfolio manager in the discretionary portfolio management (DPM) department she was responsible for several investment committees as well as for the customized management of the portfolios of UHNWI clients. She took care of the strategical development and tactical implementation of the DPM sales strategy and the retention and acquisition of clients worldwide. After her move to private banking in the year 2007, she held positions as a senior relationship manager focusing on the UK and the Netherlands. She continued this position after ABN AMRO Bank (Switzerland) was taken over by UBP Ltd in the year 2011. From 1996 to 2001 she worked as an investment advisor private banking at the ING Bank in the Netherlands. Mrs. Aldewereld studied commercial economics at the School of Business Administration and Economics in Venlo and has earned a degree as Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA) at the VU University in Amsterdam. She is fluent in Dutch, German and English.