Lombard Odier Group and Alpha Japan LO am have joined forces to bring their asset management and distribution operations into “closer alignment”.
Alpha Japan LO has also taken a new legal name under the agreement.
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Vincent Magnenat, limited partner at Lombard Odier Group, will join the board of Alpha Japan LO am as the group’s representative.
Established in 2007, Alpha Japan LO oversees more than SFr1.17bn ($1.5bn)in assets in long-only and long/short Japanese equity strategies.
Its main strategy is a high-conviction, all-cap, long-only portfolio.
Lombard Odier has been distributing that strategy to clients in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe since 2007.
In Japan, Alpha Japan LO am’s licences are set to support broader distribution of Lombard Odier’s global asset management offerings to domestic institutional investors and wholesale distributors, centred on sustainable investment, private assets and systematic strategies.
The move forms part of Lombard Odier’s expansion in Japan.
Across Europe and the UK, Lombard Odier will distribute Alpha Japan LO am’s Japanese equity strategies.
The partnership follows other recent developments, including the selection in 2025 of Lombard Odier Investment Managers and AJAA by France’s Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR), the public pension reserve fund, for a SFr137m (€150m) decarbonised Japanese equities mandate.
The move forms part of Lombard Odier’s expansion in Japan.
Lombard Odier Group reported a net profit of SFr 200m ($257.5m) for the full year 2025, up 12% compared with 2024.
Total client assets reached SFr 349bn as of December 2025.
