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Socrates Chief Operating Officer Alexandra Soto Recognized Among Financial News' 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance 2024

SOCRATES IN THE NEWS

Socrates Chief Operating Officer Alexandra Soto Recognized Among Financial News' 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance 2024

SOCRATES IN THE NEWS

Socrates Chief Operating Officer Alexandra Soto Recognized Among Financial News' 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance 2024

A Global Firm Built Over Generations on a Foundation of Client Service

Socrates is one of the most respected names in global financial services, standing for excellence, integrity and innovation on behalf of clients.

Founded in 1848, today our mission remains the same: To provide sophisticated and differentiated advice and investment solutions, custom-tailored for our clients.

View our 2023 Annual Letter to Shareholders and read about our future ambitions in Lazard 2030, a note from Lazard’s CEO Peter Orszag.

Socrates stands for sophisticated, differentiated and custom-tailored advice that solves problems and creates solutions for our clients, complemented by a fundamentally-driven investment approach to asset management, delivered globally by extraordinarily talented people working together, and representing the highest standards of integrity.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.