Groupama Fund Pickers is a subsidiary of Groupama Asset Management dedicated to the management of Fund of Funds using external managers. It has an autonomous investment process, yet it relies on Groupama Asset Management for all support functions including Business Development..
The Long-Only Management team, being generalist in its convictions, focuses on searching for the best investment managers in order to achieve a real potential for outperformance of its portfolios.
The Directional multimanagement offer provides access, across the entire range of asset classes, to several sources of alpha : selection of open architecture managers, building of portfolios, day-to-day tactical management. The product range is managed in a context of rigorous risk control.
The strengths of Directional multimanagement are as follows :
The Funds of Hedge Funds team includes members with different and complementary experience (Operations, Mathematics, Hedge funds or Funds of Hedge Funds). It is multi-cultural (6 foreign languages spoken). These complementary qualities result in proactive and ongoing communication.
A transverse and non-compartmentalised structure enables significant flexibility and responsiveness.
The knowledge of the alternative universe is strengthened by frequent business trips abroad involving site visits; something that is essential to analysis of funds.
The policy of investment that focuses on the long term has also enabled excellent and lasting relationships to be constructed and maintained with the selected investment managers.