Bernhard Zosso and Rolf Maurer

JHM Finanzmesse AG, the organiser of the Finance Fair, was founded in 1999 by partners of the independent fund specialist BEVAG Better Value AG and has been privately owned ever since.

The conviction that collective investments, and investment funds in particular, represent one of the most interesting and efficient ways of systematically building up assets has encouraged us in our efforts to promote the idea of funds. And that's why, at the end of the 1990s, we decided to create FONDS', a fund fair that would act as a platform devoted to funds and investments. In 2013, ever keen to provide active support to similar initiatives, we staged an independent real estate event under the wider umbrella of the funds fair. In 2015 we then took the next logical step on the road to expansion, with the merger of the Structured Products Forum and the annual FONDS' event to create the combined FINANZ'15 fair. Since its launch, this financial fair has attracted considerably more than 160,000 visitors to Zurich, as well as more than 1,000 speakers from the worlds of politics and business – ranging from fund managers and academics to heads of state and Nobel Prize winners. That success has now encouraged us to develop FINANZ' even further along the path we have forged.

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