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Selective investment house · Geneva · Paris

Shaping Destinies

For more than seventy years, we have placed rigour, audacity and measure in the service of leading institutional investors, at the heart of the real economy.

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Invested over 30 years
70 yrs
Of expertise since 1955
3rd
EFFICAP fund generation
The house

A bespoke investment house

Compagnie Harwanne stands at the heart of European economic momentum. Combining solid equity capital with the management of institutional assets, our trajectory is marked by prestigious alliances (Paribas, Pargesa, la Financière Pinault, Covéa) and by bold choices that have shaped our identity.

Today, we bring this heritage together with the agility of the EFFICAP investment strategy, dedicated to private equity, private debt and other assets on behalf of institutional third parties.

Seven decades of history

Ornate door knocker on a weathered door
There is no social wealth but things that are scarce, that is, both useful and limited in quantity.
Léon Walras, Elements of Pure Economics, Lausanne, 1874
Our philosophy

Four cardinal values

Each draws on a timeless body of thought to guide our daily action at the heart of the real economy.

01

Rigour

Exactingness as an institutional foundation. An analytical orthodoxy inherited from the greatest players.

02

Humility

Intellectual humility in the face of the market. The elegance of sobriety rather than noise.

03

Audacity

The courage of high selectivity. Concentrating our capital on exceptional leaders.

04

Responsibility

The imprint of a sustainable capitalism. Our interests aligned with those of our partners.

Parisian headquarters of Banque Harwanne, 1955
Our heritage

A Franco-Swiss bridge, forged in 1955

Founded simultaneously in Geneva and Paris, Harwanne established itself from its inception as a genuine bridge between the Swiss and French financial spheres, a network destined to extend to the highest levels of European capitalism.

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EFFICAP Strategy · since 2005

Agility in the service of institutions

Designed to meet the requirements of leading institutional investors, EFFICAP stands apart through a multi-asset approach, growth capital, quasi-equity, structured debt and financial assets, brought together within a single investment vehicle.

Growth capital Quasi-equity Structured debt Financial assets

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Institutional building in the financial district

At the heart of the financial centres

Our roots

Geneva · Paris

At the crossroads of Swiss and French finance, at the heart of the real economy.

Institutional investors

Building lasting value, together

We accompany a select circle of institutional partners with rigour, discretion and conviction.

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