AXA Investment Managers Paris
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AXA Investment Managers Paris - snapshot
- ILS manager or company name: AXA Investment Managers Paris
- Location (HQ / Domicile): Paris, France
- Date of launch: Sep 2007
- Assets under management *: $809 million (As at Dec 31 2023)
- Website link: AXA Investment Managers Paris website
AXA Investment Managers Paris - Details
Company profile:
The ILS strategies are managed by the ILS team based in Paris, France. The ILS team is a dedicated team focused on analysing and investing in the full spectrum of ILS globally.
The team is part of the wider AXA IM Alts Alternative Credit platform. With a track record of 20+ years across the capital stack and the full spectrum of liquid and illiquid strategies, the platform is a leading global player within alternative credit, managing €49 billion of assets under management as at 30/09/2023.
Team size and structure:
More than 50 dedicated staff located in Paris. Within AXA IM Alts Alternative Credit platform, the ILS team includes: – 1 Head of ILS team – 1 Portfolio Manager / Analyst – 2 Quantitative Analysts – 1 Portfolio Manager Assistant – 1 Data Analyst – 2 Traders – 5 Structurers – 1 dedicated IT Developer – 1 Portfolio Controller. The team leverages on AXA IM’s shared functions (risk management: 2 dedicated Risk Managers, legal: 4 dedicated Lawyers, IT support: 15 specialists, etc.). The ILS team also relies on the inputs from other teams within its parent company, the AXA Group: AXA Group Risk Management, AXA GIE (previously called Global Re), AXA XL Re, in terms of modelling and research capacities.
Number of strategies (how many funds, sidecars or strategies):
3
Offers private managed accounts?
Yes
Strategy:
Through AXA IM Alts’s affiliation with one of the largest insurance companies in the world – AXA Group – the ILS team is at the crossroads of the capital markets and insurance markets. This is an advantageous position for managing investments in ILS where knowledge of both markets is required to be able to correctly assess these securities.
The ILS team benefits from the strong on-going support of the AXA Group thanks to three specialized teams: AXA Group’s Risk Management (GRM) department provides invaluable assistance in terms of modelling and research capacities. This is formalized with a service level agreement and through regular meetings. AXA GIE (previously entities called AXA Global Re), the subsidiary of the AXA Group in charge of relationships with reinsurance companies enables the team to collect information on reinsurance market trends. Finally, regular discussions with the reinsurance company of the group (AXA XL Re) provides the ILS team with information on the reinsurance market too.
In order to avoid any conflict of interest, the ILS team’s relationship with the AXA Group is strictly limited to obtaining modelling and market information. All investment decisions are made exclusively by the ILS team.
As at December end 2023, our ILS track record has shown a consistently attractive risk/return over the years, with more than 75% cumulative net return on our lower risk/return strategy, since inception in January 2010. Our UCITS strategy, that targets higher risk/return profile, has performed more than 31% since inception in January 2017.
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AuM development: 2008: $300 million, 2009: €50 million, 2010: $118 million, 2011: $181 million, 2012: $284 million, 2013: $432 million, 2014: $506 million, 2015: $551 million, 2016: $545 million, 2017: $1.040 billion, 2018: $1.231 billion, 2019: $1.18 billion, 2020: $1.08 billion, 2021: $1.09 billion, 2022: $872 million, 2023: $809 million.
Disclaimer:
The Artemis Insurance-Linked Securities Investment Managers & Funds Directory is provided as-is. Best efforts are made to ensure the contents are accurate at the time of publication but there may be some omissions. Please contact Artemis should you require a change to your ILS manager listing.
This material is used for informational purposes only and does not constitute, on AXA Investment Managers Paris’ (“AXA IM”) part, an offer to buy or sell, solicitation or investment advice in any particular product or strategy.
The attention of each recipient is drawn to the fact that, as of today, the strategy described in this document is not developed into a fund marketed in a lot of jurisdictions (in particular, but without limitation, in France). AXA IM may however study the implementation of this strategy, at a recipient‘s request, through a dedicated fund or a mandate.
This material contains historical market data and past performance; however, historical market trends are not reliable indicators of future market behaviour and past performance is not representative of future performance. Any historical investment results described in this material are not indicative of the future investment results. Such results are intended only to give indicative information. No representation is made by AXA IM or any other person that any indicative figures will be achieved.
Unless otherwise noted, information provided herein is current as of September 2014. This material may be modified without notice and AXA IM shall not be obligated, update or otherwise revise this document. All information in this material is established on the accounting information or on market data basis. The accounting information contained in this material may be un-audited.
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Source: AXA Investment Managers Paris.
*Note: Assets under management are prone to fluctuation so the figures here are either the best available or last submitted by included managers.
It is not always possible for us to track the ‘usable’ assets under management (AUM) of most ILS managers, so the figures above tend to include an element of trapped capital. Few ILS managers report AUM figures that exclude trapped capital, unless they have fronting or other arrangements in front of their ILS funds that allow them to do so more readily.
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