Christophe Lemarié has been appointed Head of Equity Investment, Asset Allocation and Arbitrage at Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM).

Marco Piersimoni and Patrick de Fraguier have been respectively appointed Head of Strategy and Deputy Head of Strategy at Crédit Agricole Asset Management.

Christophe Lemarié Head of Equity Investment, Asset Allocation and Arbitrage at Crédit Agricole Asset Management.

Prior to taking on his new responsibilities, Christophe Lemarié was head of marketing at Crédit Agricole Asset Management, a position that he already held at Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management (CLAM) from 2002 onwards. In 2000, he was promoted from financial engineer to joint head of the financial engineering team at CLAM. Christophe began his career in 1995 as a credit analyst at Crédit Lyonnais Americas in New York.

Born in 1969, Christophe Lemarié is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and has an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications.

Marco Piersimoni Head of Strategy at Crédit Agricole Asset Management.

Prior to this appointment, between 2003 and 2006, Marco Piersimoni was responsible for strategy at CAAM SGR (formerly Nextra Investment Management) in Italy, where he had previously spent three years as a strategist. From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a fund manager for Comit Asset Management, where he helped to set up the multi-management business. He began his career in 1999 at Caboto Sim (the brokerage unit of IntesaBCI) as an international equity strategist.

Born in 1972, Marco Piersimoni is graduated in social and economics sciences from Bocconi University in Milan and has a Masters degree in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics.

Patrick de Fraguier Deputy Head of Strategy at Crédit Agricole Asset Management.

Before assuming this new position, Patrick de Fraguier spent two years at the head of CAAM's global balanced management team (pension funds - mutual benefit societies & foundations), after 14 years as head of the euro fixed income management team at Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management (CLAM) between 1989 and 2003. Patrick began his career in 1986 as balance sheet Manager at the Européenne de Banque.

Born in 1961, Patrick de Fraguier holds a degree in political sciences from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is also a postgraduate in law & banking from the University of Paris Sorbonne and in tax management from the University of Paris Dauphine. He is a member of the French Society of Securities Analysts (SFAF).