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La Financière de l’Échiquier (LFDE) is strengthening its Tech expertise platform, taking a further step in developing this strategic area. By combining its Tech and Asia expertise and welcoming Arnaud Brossard, CFA, a recognised portfolio manager specialising in European and global innovation and technology themes, LFDE is reinforcing the resources and organisation of its investment platform, with the ambition of building a leading technology hub in France and Europe.
Co-led by Stéphane Nieres-Tavernier and Kevin Net, the new Tech platform comprises seven experts and manages €2.6 billion in assets. It has a dual mission: to develop cross-cutting technology research in support of LFDE’s asset management platform, which brings together more than 50 investment professionals, and to support the management of four funds dedicated to major technology themes.
A European pioneer in major technological disruption, LFDE has established expertise in forward-looking themes such as AI (with France’s first dedicated AI fund, launched in 2018), space (Europe’s first actively managed space fund, launched in 2021) and robotics, through a dedicated fund with a particular focus on humanoid robots.
Asia has become an essential hub of global innovation, alongside the United States and Europe. Combining the Tech and Asia expertise strengthens LFDE’s ability to analyse global technology value chains, thanks to an in-depth understanding of Asian innovation players and ecosystems.
LFDE now offers four specialised funds, covering themes including AI, space and robotics. They share a common investment philosophy and process, and are supported by pooled research within the investment platform.
With more than 20 years of asset management experience, including 12 focused on global and European technology, Arnaud Brossard brings in-depth expertise in major technology value chains and in the innovations that are reshaping industrial ecosystems and driving the technological transition worldwide.
Arnaud Brossard was previously Portfolio Manager for the Innovation Europe and Global strategies at Lazard Frères Gestion, which he joined in 2014 as a sector analyst covering semiconductors in particular. Before that, he spent six years as a financial analyst at Exane BNP Paribas (2008–2014), having begun his career at Oddo Asset Management and Oddo Securities as a financial analyst covering sectors including aerospace. He graduated from ESC Rouen with a major in finance and is a CFA charterholder.
“As technological disruption profoundly transforms business models and redraws value chains on a global scale, LFDE is accelerating the development of its Tech expertise. We are delighted to welcome Arnaud Brossard, whose strong expertise in innovation ecosystems will help us build a leading technology hub in France and Europe,” says Michel Saugné, CIO of LFDE.
Founded in 1991 and a subsidiary of LBP AM since July 2023, La Financière de l’Échiquier (LFDE) is one of France’s leading conviction-driven asset managers. Drawing on its know-how and high value-added expertise, LFDE offers institutional, distribution and private clients products and solutions tailored to their financial and non-financial objectives. With €26 billion in assets under management (as at 30 June 2026), LFDE has nearly 170 employees and a presence in Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and the Benelux countries.
Disclaimer: This is a marketing communication. The strategies mentioned are mainly exposed to the risk of capital loss, equity risk, currency risk and emerging markets risk. For more information on their characteristics, risks and fees, please refer to the regulatory documents (KIID, prospectus, etc.) available at www.lfde.com. Investors should note that the units/shares presented may not be available for distribution in their country. The management team may change over time. More information on the team’s composition is available at www.lfde.com.
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