We appreciate what you do
The management philosophy of the NVBS puts people first:
We are convinced that joy in what you do, teamwork and commitment are values that for customers must be paramount. For this, you need rules, especially in our highly-regulated industry. Laws and regulations must be strictly adhered to.
Within these unshakable guidelines, we at NVBS measure results, but knowingly different:
Customer satisfaction and work satisfaction are our ideals. Not share prices, not the bonuses imagined by CEOs driven by exorbitant targets. Not the growth fantasies of management. Customers and employees are of main importance to us.
This is what makes NVBS a very attractive employer:
- Instead of targets pushed higher and higher, we support you in successfully achieving your goals.
- Instead of pressuring you with high expectations of winning new customers and ever more assets under management (AuM), we use a variety of appropriate measures to put you in contact with potential new customers who are interested in NVBS services.
- Instead of fixed, required work times and expecting you to work overtime, you decide yourself when you work, and when you need time for your private life and family.
NVBS consciously gives you space:
Work and career melt into a single principle, for which professional and personal goals are not in conflict. The people who work with us have the largest possible freedom to handle their time – always within our set guidelines of “Focus on Customer Satisfaction” and “Compliance with all Laws and Regulations.” The people who work with us can focus on their family and reduce their working hours for a period of time they choose themselves. As soon as a replacement is found, they can apply for a sabbatical and take it. They can study at university while working, or take an advanced training course. Nobody has to “burn the midnight oil” just to prove how loyal they are to the firm, or prove how committed they are in the eyes of others.
At NVBS, nobody tells you what you should do. You know this yourself:
The people who work with us are among the best in our industry. They know exactly what to do to foster good customer relations and how to optimally meet any justified request from a customer. That‘s why they don‘t need inordinate amounts of leadership, or management tools, or a leadership or control culture. Our principle is self-inspiration, commitment and self-organization.
Optimal cost structure
In a culture like this, costs for everything that is unnecessary are reduced automatically. Self-organization and self-responsibility allow NVBS to operate with significantly lower overhead and lower fixed costs than are normal in this segment. This in turn, benefits our customers in the form of more attractive conditions. But it is also beneficial for those who work with us and our independent partners in the form of a higher share in our business success or in the form of more free time, as long as monetary incentives are not of primary importance at the moment.
A laid-back work environment
We put a lot of importance on a laid-back work environment that’s an enriching experience. We talk about conflicts and deescalated them early, if necessary with the help of professional moderators. Our CEO is always available for a private, confidential meeting with employees to identify the roots of any bad feelings, fears, or latent dissatisfaction early on, so they can be dispelled using the appropriate counter measures. Nobody needs to be afraid about not following the chain of command at NVBS, because we don‘t think in hierarchical terms, but in customer benefits and motivation.
Outstanding performance
Above-average performance at work is an almost inevitable result of this kind of management philosophy. Joy, motivation and customer-orientation are – in accordance with high levels professionalism and expertise in all areas of asset management – the best drivers for economic success. This in turn, benefits our customers and reinforces the trusting relationship between customers and you as their asset manager and the NVBS as organization.
Fair distribution of earnings
We know that corporate profits are the result of mutual performance of all employees. That‘s why we don’t have a CEO who earns 100 times more than his or her employees. We distribute the entire yearly earnings according to understandable criteria. Good performance should be rewarded. Above-average performance deserves above-average recompense. What is different with us, is the basis for how we calculate this performance. It is oriented, not on hierarchical position but directly on the calculable performance of our customers. The biggest earners at NVBS are not the people at the top of the hierarchy, but those high achievers who look after customers as asset managers, who acquire new customers and who, due to excellent work with their customers, achieve good earnings as well.
Want to become an independent partner?
With us, you don‘t have to keep it a secret that you want to work on your own as an independent asset manager when the time is right. On the contrary, if this is your career goal, then we support you with everything we‘ve got. You decide yourself when you want to take the plunge from employee to self-employed. We work hard to make sure you become a member in our partner network – with major benefits to you, economies of scale and economies of knowledge-sharing with low membership fees. See Partner Model.
Training and advanced training
Training and advanced training for the people who work with us, is very important to NVBS. Here we have something very special to offer. But first, a bit about what we do not offer. We are too small as an organization to offer you complete professional training. You can‘t complete a bank apprenticeship with us. We do not offer specialized training and advanced training to teach you the tools of asset management. Why? Because the people who work with us already have this expertise when they start with us.
However, we do offer unique support including:
- Up to 10 days of advanced training per year
- A choice of over 200 advanced training seminars at the best business schools, and we pay the fees for you
- Individual coaching, if this makes sense and is wanted
- The opportunity to complete a B.A. and/or MBA while working with some of our partners
All of these training seminars deal with personality, rhetoric, appearance, how you effect others and they help you improve your powers of persuasion. They also help you upgrade your knowledge of sales, online marketing, general management, entrepreneurship, financial management, financial leadership and many other subjects.
This allows you to develop new expertise in a targeted way, expertise that helps you develop your personality to make you great when dealing with customers, on the one hand, and as a consultant of companies, family members of family-owned companies and company executives on the other. After all, these are our most important target groups. The better you are able to meet their needs and help them deal with the challenges in building, multiplying, structuring and investing their assets to then pass them on to a next generation, the more successful your development as an asset manager will be.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Does this appeal to you? Are you planning, alone or with colleagues, to found your own asset management firm? Or are you looking to collaborate with a service platform? Are you looking for a system partner that offers things that you cannot, or don’t want, to handle yourself?
Then we invite you to take the first step and contact us.
Contact with us strictly confidential? Indirect contact:
We understand that you might require discretion when you contact us and would prefer confidential, indirect contact. For this, we have contracted the famous MAB Swiss Executive School to carry out initial contact with you. Your email will be sent to a member of the management board of this business school, and only read personally by the CEO or a member of the management board. This is followed up by an initial confidential telephone call. Only after you give your consent to direct contact (by email) with NVBS after this call, will we be informed of your wish to contact us. Our CEO will then contact you personally.
