Our investment team

Olivier de Berranger is a graduate of HEC. Since 1990, he has successively fulfilled the positions of trader and trading desk manager on derivatives and cash interest rate products at Crédit Lyonnais and Calyon. He then became manager for the Capital Markets sector at First Finance, a consulting and training company. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2007 as a bond manager. He is specifically in charge of the bond component of Echiquier Patrimoine fund and manages Echiquier ARTY and Echiquier Credit Europe. In 2017 he is nominated Chief Investment Officer and becomes part of the Management Committee. In April 2019, he also became Deputy CEO.

With a PhD in applied mathematics, a Master’s degree in market finance and capital management and a postgraduate degree (DEA Laure Elie) in statistics and random modelling, Matthieu is also an actuary. He began his career in 2002 at Oddo & Cie as a quantitative analyst for derivative products before joining Natixis AM with responsibility for financial engineering. In 2008 he joined EDRAM to set up a financial engineering department and then in 2013 created SIMAFIN (Société d'Ingénierie Mathématique et Financière), a provider of quantitative solutions. At Montpensier Finance, Matthieu works on core investment processes and the development of decision-making tools and methods. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2017 as Deputy Chief Investment Officer.

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, Bocconi University in Milan, Centre de formation à l’analyse financière (SFAF, French professional Financial Analyst certification) and CFA, Stéphanie Bobtcheff has specialised in mid-cap investments for over 18 years. Portfolio manager at Indosuez Asset Management, Crédit Agricole Asset Management and Oddo Asset Management, she then spent 7 years in Geneva at Pascal Investment Advisers. Stéphanie Bobtcheff joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in September 2013 as a portfolio manager in the small and mid-cap team.

After a diploma in chartered accounting and a DESS postgraduate degree in tax law, José Berros joined the audit firm of Ernst & Young before moving to HSBC Private Bank where he was a director and responsible of the holdings of a capital investment fund. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2005, where he managed the Echiquier Neteor fund and then the Echiquier Junior fund. He is now a portfolio manager in the small and mid-cap team.

Graduate of the Angers business school ESSCA, Guillaume Puech, CFA, joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2011 as a financial analyst for Echiquier Patrimoine. In July 2013, he became co-manager of Echiquier Value and manager of Echiquier Excelsior. He joined the small and mid-cap team at the end of 2014.

A graduate of the EDHEC Business School, Adrien Bommelaer began his career in 1997 as a sell-side analyst in London at Credit Suisse. In 2005, he became an analyst for the hardware and semiconductor sector. In 2012 he became a member of the global portfolio management team of Alliance Trust Investments before joining the Sustainability Investment Team. In 2016 he became the co-manager for global funds. Adrien was appointed partner at Lion Trust asset management when it acquired ATI. In 2017 he joined La Financière de l’Echiquier as co-manager of Echiquier Major SRI Growth Europe.

Matthieu graduated from ESDES business school in 2008 and worked as a fixed-income and equity analyst at CM-CIC, Nomura and Natixis. Matthieu joined LFDE in 2016 as a European equity large cap analyst. Since October 2017, Matthieu co-manages Echiquier Major SRI Growth Europe.

Holder of a master’s degree in Management Science, a post-graduate degree in Finance from the University of Montpellier I and SFAF graduate, Sonia began her career as Small and Mid-Caps equity analyst at Euroland Finance in 2003. In 2007, she joined the Berenberg Bank France Equity Research team as a Small and Mid-Cap analyst. Sonia moved on to La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2010 as a financial analyst on the European SMID cap strategy and later on Echiquier Major SRI Growth Europe. In 2015 she became fund manager of Echiquier Positive Impact Europe and of the dedicated SRI funds and is today also co-managing Echiquier Major SRI Growth Europe. Highly implicated in the different debates around sustainability and climate change in the asset management industry she has been part of different working groups as for example “How to close the gap among Investors, Management and the Board of Directors with regard to Climate Change and other ESG topics for effective oversight and disclosure” with LeaderXXchange.

A graduate of IEP Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies) and the French Society of Financial Analysts (SFAF), Frédéric Buzaré began his career in 1995 with the Banque de France followed by Axa Investment Managers and BNP Paribas, as a European equity fund manager. Frédéric managed the Dexia AM equity team from Brussels since 2007, before joining the Government of Singapore Investment Corp in London in 2012, as senior vice president and European equity funds manager. Frédéric Buzaré also taught finance at IEP Paris from 1998 to 2012.

Graduate from IESEG and holder of an MA in Finance and Investment from Nottingham University, Maxime Lefebvre, CFA, started his career in 2003 as a marketing officer at Amundi in Hong-Kong and then at La Française des Placements in Paris. In 2007, after passing the CFA, he joined the portfolio management team of La Française des placements and spent 5 years as a portfolio manager in European equities. He moved in 2014 to La Banque Postale Gestion Privée, as a portfolio manager, where he developed a specific know-how on "value" stocks. Maxime Lefebvre joined La Financière de l'Echiquier in 2015, in order to strengthen our "value" team.

After working as a sell-side analyst at CM-CIC Securities before turning to audit (KPMG), Romain Ruffenach joined SMA Gestion in 2013, in the Equity Long Only unit. Romain notably became manager of the company’s benchmark European equity fund. A graduate of Audencia Business School, Romain also holds a Master of Finance degree from the Ohio State University Fischer College of Business. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2018 as co-manager of Echiquier Value Euro.

A graduate of the ISEG Finance School of Lyon with a master's degree in trading and asset management from ESLSCA Business School Paris, Philbert began his professional experience as an analyst at Financière d'Uzès and then MidCap Partners. Philbert joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2018, after completing a six-month internship in the small & mid cap team.

Mathieu Barbara graduated from Sup de Co Reims and completed a two-year master’s degree at the IAE de Créteil, specialising in portfolio management. After starting out as a consultant at Ernst & Young, he spent a year working as a small and mid-cap analyst at BNP. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2014 to work primarily on Echiquier Agenor and Echiquier Entrepreneurs.

A graduate from the Skema Business School, Coline began her professional career as a responsible investment product specialist, after working within several associations in the field of environmental labelling and microcredit. She joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in February 2017 as an SRI analyst. In March 2020 she was promoted to head of ESG research.

After graduating from EDHEC (Finance degree) in 2017, Luc did internships as an SRI analyst at EthiFinance and La Financière de l’Echiquier before joining Exane in London as a financial analyst. Luc joined La Financière de l’Echiquier’s investment team in August 2017 as a financial and SRI analyst

Holder of the Magistère Banque Finance Assurance of Paris-Dauphine University and a Master’s degree from Bocconi University, Louis Porrini began his career in 2014 at BlackRock as an assistant manager on equity funds. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2018 as an analyst on the Echiquier Agressor fund.

Antoine Fabre holds a master's degree in economics and international finance from Bordeaux. He began his professional career by doing a first internship at EOS Allocations and then a second in the tendering department at Allianz Global Investors. In 2019, Antoine joined the SRI team at La Financière de l'Echiquier as an extra-financial analyst.

David Ross, CFA, is a graduate of Yale University and Syracuse University and has worked throughout his career in the United States. He has acquired his equity management experience over 20 years, notably at US Trust, Citi Private Bank and then Chevy Chase Trust Investment Advisors as a Director and emerging market fund manager. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier’s Global team in September 2014.

From Bolivia with a degree in finance from IAE Lyon school of business, Rolando Grandi began his career at Roche-Brune AM as an international equity analyst before becoming co-manager in 2015. Rolando joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2017 as an analyst for international large caps. In 2018, he expanded his functions for Echiquier World Equity Growth by becoming the Thematic Equities Manager.

After obtaining an MsC in Finance from the London School of Economics, Louis started his professional career in 2015 as a thematic fund manager assistant at Amundi. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2018 as an analyst for the global and thematic equity team.

A graduate with Masters 2 in Financial and Banking Techniques at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, Emilie began her career at Lazard Frères Gestion in business development before joining Primonial's institutional clients department in September 2014. She joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2018, also in Client Services. She switched to the international equities team in April 2019 as an analyst.

A graduate from HEC and with a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in random modelling, Emmanuel Martin has more than 20 years’ experience in convertible bond management, including six as head of convertible arbitrage for Barep AM (2001-2004) and Fortis Investments (2004-2006). In June 2006, he helped to create Acropole AM, the leading French management company specialised in convertible bonds. Following the merger with La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2013, he took over as head of convertible bond fund management.

With a degree from the HEC business school, Anne-Claire began her career in 2008 at Exane Derivatives as a convertible bond analyst, then Oddo Asset Management as an analyst for convertibles and high-yield bonds. Anne-Claire became manager for convertible bond and high-yield bond dated funds in 2011, before joining AltaRocca AM in 2014 as a fund manager and analyst. Anne-Claire joined the La Financière de l’Echiquier collective management team in March 2018, as a fund manager and analyst.

A graduate of Toulouse Business School, Guillaume Jourdan worked for 9 years at ADI and at Montpensier Finance as a convertible bond Manager. He was appointed to the Convertible Bonds team at La Financière de l’Echiquier in September 2014 to enhance its breadth of expertise. Since July 2017 Guillaume is also co-manager of Echiquier ARTY.

From Argentina, Uriel Saragusti studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires and has a Master’s degree in economics and finance from Paris Dauphine University. He began his career as a junior analyst at Dexia Crédit Local. He then went to BNP Paribas Asset Management, where he worked as a buy-side credit analyst for a year, before joining La Financière de l'Echiquier in October 2013. In July 2017, in addition to his analyst role on Echiquier ARTY, Uriel is nominated co-manager of Echiquier Credit Europe.

Matthieu holds a Master degree from EM Lyon Business School and a master's degree in business and tax law from Bordeaux University, He began his career in 2011 as an LBO analyst at Crédit Agricole CIB, then a high-yield credit analyst at Fitch Ratings, and gained experience in asset management at AltaRocca AM as a senior analyst before joining La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2018. He is co-manager of Echiquier Altarocca Rendement 2023, in addition to his analyst role on Hybrid and Convertible Bonds.

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion, Jean Biscarrat joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in 2002 and set up the intermediation team.. Fund manager of Echiquier Patrimoine and mandates/dedicated funds, he supplemented his training in 2009 with a MAP at INSEAD.

After obtaining degrees in Finance from the Dauphine University and Computer Engineering / Market Finance from Efréi, Charlotte began her career, after a first traineeship at LFDE, with BNP Paribas as an assistant convertible bond fund manager before joining LFDE as an analyst in the convertible bond team. En July 2017 she also joined the Echiquier ARTY team as analyst.

A graduate of EISTI (engineering school specialising in financial mathematics and IT) and ESSEC, Antoine Daligaux began his career first in the actuarial department of Allianz life insurance then at actuarial consultancy Optimind Winter. He followed this by a year-long apprenticeship in real estate investing at the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, before joining La Financière de l’Echiquier in October 2018 as equity analyst in balanced funds.

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ex-Fontenay-Saint Cloud), professor and PhD in philosophy, Alexis manages several funds including Echiquier Stamina Patrimoine. He joined Stamina AM in 2006 as a fund picker. Prior to that, he was a teacher and researcher in probability theories, hence his interest in the subject of risk, notably financial. Alexis joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2018.

Benjamin has a master's degree in market finance from CNAM. After acquiring substantial experience from different departments of the Rivoli Fund Management, he joined Stamina AM in 2008 as a quantitative analyst. He accordingly contributed to developing quantitative strategies to support decision-making processes and created valuation and risk management programmes. In 2009, he was responsible for modelling for quantitative funds at Stamina AM and since July 2011 has managed the entire quantitative range including notably the Echiquier QuantoStars fund. Benjamin joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2018.

As part of his master's degree in Economic and Financial Engineering at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Clément had a one-year traineeship at KBL Richelieu followed by Stamina AM beginning in October 2010, where he assisted the management team also as a trainee. In 2011, he joined the quantitative management team as an analyst. He subsequently became a member of the conviction management team in the summer of 2013 as a fund manager and fund picker. He joined La Financière de l’Echiquier in March 2018.

2010 Graduate from ISAM-IAE Nancy, Enguerrand Artaz started his career at BNP Paribas Wealth Management in Luxembourg in mandate management. In 2014 he joined La Financière de l’Echiquier and the investment team as a fund and macro-economics analyst. In 2017 he became cross asset analyst and external fund selector.

After his Master’s degree in Finance from Paris Dauphine University, Ludovic started his career at HDF Finance, a pioneer of hedge fund selection in France, as a quantitative analyst for alternative funds. He spent 8 years within the company, becoming, in 2006, fund picker, risk manager and member of the risk control committee and then manager of systematic trading strategies in 2011. He joined La Financiere de l’Echiquier in 2013 as manager of the Echiquier QME Global and Echiquier QME.

After receiving a master’s degree in Bank and Finance from Paris-Sorbonne University, Alexis Grutter started his career in 2001 as a quantitative analyst for emerging markets and rate products at Fortis IM. He joined HDF Finance in 2003 where he was successively analyst, alternative fund picker, alternative fund manager in 2008 and finally systematic strategy manager in 2011. In 2013 he joined la Financiere de l’Echiquier to manage the Echiquier QME Global and Echiquier QME.