Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the bank breached its duties under the investment advisory mandate, especially Art. 398 CO, by recommending and facilitating a highly concentrated leveraged bond investment.
Decisione estratta
No breach was established. The client knew and accepted the risks, including concentration risk and lombard-credit risk, and chose to proceed despite warnings.
Motivazione estratta
In an advisory relationship, the client remains the decision-maker and bears the investment risk if informed of the relevant chances and risks. The bank is liable only if the advice was manifestly unreasonable at the time. Here, the client had expressly accepted a substantial loss risk, had been warned about the issuer default risk and margin-call risk, and insisted on the investment anyway.