Philippe Chaumel

Groupama AM is an actively responsible, research-based manager which focuses on European equity and bond markets with specialist expertise in European large-caps and corporate investment grade bonds which aims to improve the risk/return ratio over the long term. For equities, the firm utilizes a bottom-up approach to select the most promising securities in line with market trends. Their fixed-income includes Eurozone or international sovereign debt, bonds indexed to euro or international inflation, investment grade credit management and aggregate asset management. Groupama AM offers short-term money market and bond funds tailored to the different cash needs of investors. An offer built to fully meet their main expectations on the asset class: low volatility, liquidity, regularity of performance.

Provides brokerage services

Rothschild & Cie Gestion utilizes active, passive and multi-manager strategies to invest across geographic regions in a range of instruments including equities, fixed-income, alternatives, currency and convertibles. The firm utilizes a blended, unbiased style to manage equities. Their structured investment process combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to allocate sectors and geographies and to select stocks, respectively. They perform fundamental qualitative analysis and focus on managing European values through their mutual fund range and US large-caps. Rothschild & Cie Gestion's index (passive) management seeks to replicate the performance of a market index and is based on pure replication (buying all the securities that comprise the index and their respective weightings) and synthetic replication (constructing a portfolio of money market instruments (certificates of deposit, treasury , pensions against Treasury bills). Meanwhile, the fund buys (or sells) futures contracts on the index to replicate. Multi-management is based on a quantitative and qualitative selection of underlying funds to control risk and maximize performance through diversification. A dedicated team selects funds, manages funds of funds and monitors managers.