The purpose of the Active Equities business line is to provide institutional investors with privileged access to funds offered by entrepreneurial investment managers and characterized by innovative investment approaches or those that promote diversification.
NewAlpha's expertise in Active Equities is characterized by:
Cumulated experience in manager research and portfolio construction
Uncompromising targeting on identifying differentiated alpha sources
Ability to provide bespoke solutions to institutional clients at a reasonable cost
An efficient technological platform to support a well-defined process
This expertise is offered to investors in different forms:
Dedicated fund of funds or 'club funds
Portfolio management mandate
Advisory mandate covering identification, analysis, due diligence, portfolio construction and monitoring
Extra-financial criteria are considered at two levels: selection of investment management companies and selection of funds. This ESG dimension is applied with the aim of raising awareness and progress in the medium term.
entrepreneurial investment managers recorded in our database
active acceleration deals
400 million €
at December 31, 19
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PAUL BUIGUES
Head of Quantitative Research
Paul joined NewAlpha in 2018 as Head of Quantitative Research. In particular, it is developing quantitative tools for allocating and selecting funds.Paul began his career in 1999 as a credit portfolio manager at ADI where he developed and implemented a quantitative approach to the selection of issuers of credit instruments. In 2005, he founded Fimaxis, a company specializing in quantitative research, and worked there for 6 years until 2011. After that, in 2011, Paul joined Rcube, a research company in asset allocation and global macro strategies. In 2016, he created the company XR Research, where he developed management strategies based on Artificial Intelligence.Paul holds a master's degree in finance from HEC Paris and is a graduate engineer from Télécom SudParis.
BENOIT DONNEN
Manager Research - Head of ESG Research
Benoit is, since 2014, Director of Research & Analysis at NewAlpha AM.Benoit began his career in 2002 with ADI within the Business Development team before joining NewAlpha Advisers in 2005 as an analyst on absolute performance funds. Benoit joined La Française AM in 2007 as a financial engineer to design decision-making and assembly tools for structured Actions products. In 2012, he was appointed Senior Analyst at NEXT AM, in charge of sourcing and fund analysis for the 1st French institutional seeding fund dedicated to asset management entrepreneurs and implementing a Private Equity approach.A graduate of Science-Po Strasbourg and CAIA, Benoit holds a Master 2 in Corporate Finance and Market Practice. He also owns the EFFAS certification as an ESG analyst.
MATHIEU KLEIN
Co-Chief Investment Officer
Before joining New Alpha AM in 2019, Mathieu was Deputy Managing Director and co-founder of Darius Capital Partners SA, a management and consulting company specializing in alternative strategies for which he acted as Investment Manager.He began his career at JP Morgan in Brussels, as an Assistant Treasurer, seconded to the Euroclear Operations Center. From 1986 to 1990, he was a senior corporate debt trader at CSFB and Warburg Secs in London. From 1990 to 1994, Mathieu was responsible for international bond trading at CCF (now HSBC France). From 1994 to 2000, Mathieu was Executive Director at Lehman Brothers. Then, from 1997 to 2000, he became Product Manager for Asia of international flow products, based in Tokyo. Then, he founded and chaired Trade Europa SAS, a software company to aid in the decision to invest in European stocks.Mathieu is a Commercial Engineer, graduated from the Solvay Business School in Brussels.
ANTOINE ROLLAND
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Investment Officer
Antoine Rolland is Chief Executive Officer and co-Chief Investment Officer of NewAlpha AM. He first joined the company (a subsidiary of ADI at the time) in 2006, then was appointed CIO in 2007 and Chief Executive Officer in 2009. Antoine Rolland began his career in 1992 in New York in the financial modeling department of Société Générale before joining Transoptions Finances as a trader in interest rate derivatives. In 1997, then in charge of market making on LIFFE, Antoine joined Aurel as head of the convertible bond trading team. In 1998, he became Managing Partner of ADI, then responsible for credit activity and volatility arbitrage from 2003. From 1998 to 2005, the total outstanding amount of the funds for which he is the manager went from 25Mn € to 3Md €.A graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Antoine holds an MBA from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon.
NICOLAS VAUTHIER
Nicolas is now Director of Equity and Absolute Performance Investments at NewAlpha. He joined the company in 2012 as Head of Management Support ActivitiesNicolas started his career at Tillinhghast Towers-Perrin in 1996 as a consulting actuary before joining Barra as Senior Consultant for Southern Europe in 1999. In 2000, Nicolas became Risk Manager then portfolio manager within the Crédit Agricole Group's quantitative equity management team. He then joined AQTIS as a founding partner and Managing Director in 2004. From 2007 to 2011, he was Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head of Quantitative Equity Management at OFI Quant (OFI AM Group). From 2011 to 2012, he was an independent asset management and risk management consultant.Nicolas is a graduate of the University of Paris VI in Mathematics and a graduate of the CFA Institute. He is a member of the Institute of French Actuaries (IAF).
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