Christian Collin, aged 55, is a business school graduate from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce. He started his career in 1977 as task officer within the Financial Department of Ciments Lafarge France. A year later, he joined the Economic Development Bank of Tunisia as task officer.

In 1980, he joined the teams of GAN Incendie-Accidents as Manager of the Organisation Department. In 1986, he was appointed Manager of the General Affairs Department within the General Secretariat of the GAN Group. He was promoted to General Secretary of the Group in 1991, then became Head of the Strategy and Finance Department in 1996. In 1998, after the Group’s privatisation, he was appointed Director, Finance, Legal Affairs and Taxation as well as Director, Strategic Marketing, Quality and Communications of GAN SA. In January 2000, Christian Collin took up the post of Director, Group Legal Affairs, Taxation and Logistics and was responsible for the restructuring of GAN and the merger of Groupama SA and GAN SA. He was appointed General Secretary of Groupama in September 2002. He became as well the head of Group Human Resources, Strategy and Mergers Acquisitions in 2005.

Christian Collin has been Chief Financial and Risk Officer of Groupama since 1st January 2010. In this capacity, he is in charge of the Financing and Investments Department, the Group Accounting Department, Reinsurance and Steering, the Group Risk, Internal Control and Actuarial Departments, and the Group’s financial subsidiaries (Groupama Asset Management, Groupama Private Equity, Groupama Banque and Groupama Immobilier).

GROUPAMA ASSET MANAGEMENT
With €88.8 billion in assets under management (at 31 December 2009), principally managed for the account of institutional investors, Groupama Asset Management today ranks 8th amongst asset management companies in France. It is a subsidiary of Groupama, the leading mutual insurance group in France, and is recognised for its active management in Europe.
A partnership policy enables Groupama AM to manage US and Japanese stocks. The company is also involved in SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) management practices. It has sites in Italy and Spain and is active in Portugal, Hungary and Canada.
In 2009 and for the 3rd year in a row, Eurofonds-FundClass ranked it the number one French and European asset manager in its class for the consistency of its performance.

Groupama Asset Management
Catherine Corbasson - Director of Public Relations - Tel.+33 1 44 56 68 64
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kvitre-duret@groupama-am.fr

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