With European long-term and active management as its primary business, Groupama Asset Management is ranked 7th among French asset management companies with €81.3 billion of assets under management. Groupama Asset Management, a subsidiary of France's leading mutual insurance company Groupama, is ranked as the top French and European manager within its category for the consistency of its performance.*
*source Eurofonds Fund Class – March 2009 (category 5)
As a market player known for its expertise in managing mutual funds and mandates, Groupama Asset Management has built management processes aimed at achieving consistent performance and efficient risk management. Groupama Asset Management is rated “M2” by Fitch Ratings and also holds the GIPS certification for calculation and presentation of its performance.
Groupama Asset Management’s Macroeconomic Research team designs the macroeconomic scenario that is subsequently integrated into the investment policy according to the different types of asset classes. The team regularly publishes its work and contributes on an ad hoc basis to press articles and scientific conferences.
Groupama Asset Management is equipped with a team dedicated to fundamental analysis which issues recommendations regarding sectors and companies (Equities and Credit), taking both a financial and an extra-financial approach.
Groupama Asset Management's structure provides professional investors with a service based on responsiveness and proximity. Regarding fund management, Groupama Asset Management has a single centre of management that combines the independent research activities of its 71 investment managers, analysts and economists. On the commercial side, 43 employees ensure a close relationship with customers, meaning that their expectations can be met as closely as possible.
Groupama Asset Management utilises expertise gained from past experience to develop and evolve its product range (Funds of Hedge Funds, Directional Multimanagement) in such a way as to incorporate ever more specialised techniques such as absolute performance. Furthermore, the company has been committed to Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) since the year 2000. Groupama Asset Management incorporates Environmental and Social criteria as well as criteria relating to Governance (ESG) into its analysis of issuers and securities.
Groupama Asset Management, a subsidiary of the mutual insurance, banking and financial services group Groupama (www.groupama.com), is mirroring its parent company’s drive for international development.
With a presence already established in Italy and Spain, Groupama Asset Management is constructing distribution partnerships. A primary example is its work with Investeam in Canada. The company is recognised as a leading European asset manager and is seeking to become a fully-fledged player on the European market.