AXA IM appoints global head of multi-asset as Serge Pizem leaves the firm

Laurent Clavel takes over

AXA Investment Managers has appointed Laurent Clavel, currently head of the firm’s Quant Lab, as global head of multi-asset.

Based in Paris, he will take over from Serge Pizem from September, who will be leaving the firm after two decades to "pursue new professional challenges" outside AXA IM.  Clavel will report to Hans Stoter, global head of AXA IM Core, and focus on enhancing the investment, commercial and financial performance of the €864bn firm's multi-asset platform. Alternatives drive inflows at buoyant AXA IM Pizem joined AXA IM in 2002 to oversee European equities and later took the lead of Framlington Paris. He then began overseeing the total return team before becoming the head of multi-asset ...