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Ex-Pictet manager to launch macro equity strategy

Tuesday, April 02, 2024

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B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

Vincent Ijaouane will be launching a European-focused discretionary long/short macro equity strategy, with the distinctiveness that it lets the top-down approach decide what kind of ideas and risks should find their space in the portfolio.

Ijaouane started as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs in London. He joined Pictet Asset Management in Geneva in 2011 to co-launch the Agora fund, a European equity market neutral hedge fund strategy that raised and managed over US$2bn of assets in the past decade and received multiple awards. He was first an analyst but rose through the ranks to become the sole head of the strategy, managing a team of six investment professionals. The fund achieved a 6.3% annualised return with a 5.8% annualised volatility over the 12-year track record. He stopped managing the fund in the spring of 2023.

He learned from his experience at Pictet the use of option strategies to express ideas and to protect capital at the same time. He also built relationships with the sell-side and the corporate world.

The Vigama strategy invests across developed markets, using macro lenses to identify alpha investment opportunities in equity and equity-related instruments via single names, indices or basket......................

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