Axa Investment Managers

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Axa Investment Managers
FormerlyAxa Asset Management
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Investment management
Founded1997
Headquarters
Tour Majunga, La Défense, Puteaux, IDF, France
Number of locations
18
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Marco Morelli (Executive chairman)
Products Mutual Funds
ETFs
Quantitative funds
Real Estate
Structured Finance
Hedge Funds
AUM €844 billion (December 2023) [1]
Number of employees
2,700 (December 2023) [1]
Parent Axa
Website www.axa-im.com

Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) is a global investment management firm. It operates as the investment arm for Axa, a global insurance and reinsurance company.

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History

In 1994, Axa created an investment management subsidiary under the name, Axa Asset Management. [2] It operated separately from the insurance business lines and was headed by Jean-Pierre Hellebuyck. [3]

In 1997, Henri de Castries launched AXA Investment Managers (Axa IM) which Axa Asset Management became a part of. [4] Donald Brydon was selected to be its chief executive officer. [5]

In 1996, Dominique Senequier joined Axa and founded the Axa Private equity platform. It operated under Axa IM until 2013 where it was spun off as a separate firm and renamed Ardian. [6] [7]

During 1999, Axa IM paid US$125 million for a controlling stake in the Rosenberg Group, an active quantitative global equity manager based in California. [8] It was renamed to "Rosenberg Equities" which now operates as the quantitative investment platform under Axa IM. In the same year, AXA Real Estate Investment Managers was also established. It was eventually renamed to the "Real Assets" platform. [9]

In 2002, Axa IM set up its Structure Finance division. [4]

In 2005, Axa IM purchased the investment firm, Framlington Group from HSBC Holdings and Comerica for US$342.5 million. [10] It was renamed to "Framlington Equities" which now operates as a long term equity active management platform under Axa IM.

In 2006, Axa IM established a joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. The resulting joint venture was AXA SPDB Investment Managers Co., Ltd, which is based in China. [11]

In 2008, Axa IM set up a joint venture with Kyobo Life Insurance Company. The resulting joint venture was Kyobo AXA Investment Managers, which is based in South Korea. [12] [13]

In 2012, Axa IM established two joint ventures with Bank of India. They were BOI AXA Investment Managers Private Limited and BOI AXA Trustee Services Private Limited, which are based in India. [14]

During 2016, Axa IM set up Chorus, a hedge fund platform. In the same year, the Real Assets division acquired Sydney-based, Eureka Funds Management to expand its real assets' operation in the Asia-Pacific region. [15]

Axa Investment registered as a crypto service provider in France in March 2023, avoiding disruption to their services. [16] Bloomberg reported in August 2023 that Axa Investment Managers would be laying off around 90 positions out of its 2,600 employees it had as of the end of 2022. [17]

In April 2024, Axa IM acquired W Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing on GP-led and secondary investments. [18]

Business overview

Axa IM has seven different investment platforms. They are:

At the end of March 2020, of Axa IM's AUM, around 40% was in Fixed Income, 29% Multi-Asset, 8% in Structured Finance, 12% in Real Assets and 7% in Equities. [19]

During 2020, Axa IM restructured its organization to create two main business units, Axa IM Alts and Axa IM Core. [20]

Axa IM Alts consists of the Real Assets, Structured Finance and Chorus investment platforms. At the end of 2020, it had €159 billion assets under management. [21]

Axa IM Core consists of the Framlington Equities, Rosenberg Equities, Fixed Income and Multi-Asset investment platforms. At the end of 2020, it had €559 billion assets under management. [21]

Axa IM has offices in 22 different country which cover Europe, Asia and North America.

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