The couple has two children lives ten years in Paris

Do not take risk recklessly, not to play with its own funds, not investing in projects or products that it includes... In these times of financial crisis and extreme volatility in the markets, it is perhaps not needless to recall these few "good old principles" that any worthy of the name banker should never lose sight of. It is at least the opinion of Raphael Spahr, the Genevese forty-six years in which the partners of the Swiss private bank Mirabaud come to entrust the keys of the hexagonal subsidiary.

These rules simple, obvious, the new Executive Director of Mirabaud France intones them a pleasure even more obvious that they allowed the establishment, founded in 1819 in Geneva, to pass through without damage the storm that rocked the financial world over the past three years. And he speaks with knowledge: prior to convert in the private bank, at the end of the 1990s, the man developed and "marketait", in the City, as sophisticated derivatives that exotic, such as these "exchangeable synthetic" as his employer, Credit Switzerland Financial Products, was the first to propose to the major 'corporate' Europeans.

It is because he "not comprenai t the market actions" Raphael Spahr, after the Russian crisis of 1998, has chosen to change otherwise activity, at least of environment. Credit Switzerland, who was France to engage in the private bank by buying the House Hottinger (pronounced Hottingre), to reserve a wheelchair to the Executive Committee of the new together. In its perimeter: private and mutual fund management, investment consulting, life insurance and heritage engineering - brief all facets of the profession except the conservation of titles.

For successful years of initiation

A beautiful position, therefore, but that put it at the mercy of one of these strategic 360 turns which are sometimes compelled the supertankers in the global economy. This is what happened in 2005, date at which he left Credit Switzerland to become the number two of Mirabaud France.

The son of a Swiss banker, Raphael Spahr grew up in the mountains of the Switzerland-speaking before descending in Geneva studying political economy, his passion for always. It out of the University with two offers of employment while also inviting one another - trader in a large Bank of American Affairs and assistant to the Director-General of GATT Arthur Dunkel - but prefer complete his training in economics by studying law which it will be three years.

Then recruited a Geneva law firm, its financial fibre won him work primarily on behalf of banks or insurance companies. For successful years of initiation in which he especially build professional and friendly relationships with some partners of... Mirabaud.

In 1996, is the entry in Credit Switzerland and the departure to London with his wife, also lawyer training but converted since in jewellery. The couple has two children, lives ten years in Paris. As soon as possible, Raphael Spahr refuge with his family in his expensive mountains for to indulge in these hiking ski it likes. But since that joining Mirabaud, he began also to sailing. Sponsorship of the Open 60 of Dominique Wavre requires.