Celestin Pepin
Invescap SA Associate
Celestin Pepin, an associate at Invescap SA in Geneva, Switzerland, is a citizen of both Canada and Switzerland and holds a BA degree in economics. He also participated in, and passed all three levels of, the CFA Programme at the CFA Institute.
During his time at Invescap, Mr Pepin’s key achievements have included leading the design and implementation of a private credit investment solution, with a focus on providing working capital and extensive cross-border coordination, and establishing companies in Luxembourg and the USA, ensuring operational efficiency and compliance with local regulations.
Mr Pepin has served in the Swiss Armed Forces since 2017 and is now a first lieutenant, having completed Swiss Officer School with honours. While in this role, he spent 18 weeks as the platoon leader of 30 trilingual signal and intelligence soldiers.
Work Experience
September 2023 - Present
Associate, Private Assets
Invescap
- Led team in design and implementation and sale of private credit investment strategies.
- Selected Project Experience:
Liquid Private Credit Strategy
- Led team’s effort to design and implement a US private credit investment strategy focusing on providing
working capital; resulted in sale to asset manager.
- Developed marketing material and presented the strategy to prospective investors; resulted in capital
commitments of USD 400 Mio.
- Conducted quantitative model portfolio simulations in R, utilizing Monte Carlo simulations: led to increased
investment and risk management efficiency
July 2017 - Present
First Lieutenant, NATO Rank OF-1
Swiss Armed Forces
- Military Disaster Relief Signals and Intelligence Officer with multiple deployments
- Select Deployment Experience:
- 4 week deployment as a trilingual (German, French, Italian) platoon leader of 56 soldiers for the benefit of
a rescue/engineer company. (2018)
- COVID-19 deployment. Responsible for organizational planning and operational setup of a military
hospital to support COVID-19 response efforts (2020)
- Service as a battalion staff signals officer (S6) during battalion exercise with promotion to First-Lieutenant.
(2024)
June 2022 - September 2023
Junior Associate, Investment Management
Invescap
- Development and sale of private asset strategies for professional clients
- Selected Project Experience:
- Created and implemented private fund performance calculation and amortization method and instruments for an
institutional client
Education
2022 - 2024
CFA Institute
CFA Program Participant
Passed all three levels of the CFA Program and may be awarded the charter upon completion of the required work
experience.
2019 - 2022
University of St.Gallen
Economics
Thesis: Effects of the Quantitative Easing Program on the US Stock Market during the COVID-19 Crisis. Published
at the University of St.Gallen (HSG).
Skills
- MS Office
- VBA
- R
- GAUSS
- Reuters
- Latex
- Working knowledge of Python
- SQL
- Power BI
- MatLab
Bloomberg.
Languages
- French (Native)
- German (Native)
- Swiss-German (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- Italian (Conversational)
