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Ygal Sebban

Ygal Sebban - Investment Director


Ygal Sebban, Investment Director, leads the Emerging Markets Equity team.

With over 30 years of experience in financial markets, Ygal has a strong history of managing funds across asset classes with a focus on emerging markets. Ygal started his career in Paris as a Financial and Quantitative Analyst for Ixis Management Paris before moving into equity portfolio management at Louvre Gestion. In 2006 he joined Brevan Howard to co-manage the Brevan Howard Emerging Markets Strategies Master Fund, a cross asset absolute return fund that reached USD 2.5 billion in AUM. Based in Switzerland since 2010, Ygal managed an EM Absolute Return strategy for Sucden (2016-2020) and more recently (2020-2024) applied his expertise to commodities and energy transition at Evooq and Amadeus Capital. He is based in Zurich.

Ygal Sebban

My Insights

Outlook 2025
Many positive factors favouring EM equities
December 2024

EMERGING MARKET EQUITIES: “We see many positive factors favouring emerging market equities.”

Active Thinking
Active Thinking: Emerging Markets - Underowned and undervalued
31 October 2024

Ygal Sebban, Investment Director of Emerging Market Equity, explores the opportunities in emerging markets and explains why he believes investing in Chinese equities looks particularly appealing right now.