Ostrum Asset Management has appointed Gaëlle Malléjac as its global chief investment officer (global CIO).
The firm said Malléjac will oversee a team of more than 140 investment professionals managing assets totalling €396bn. She will particularly focus on leveraging all of Ostrum AM’s expertise to develop solutions that address the current and future challenges faced by its institutional clients, especially regarding the central issue of transitions, where Ostrum AM refers to itself as a leading player.
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Olivier Houix, CEO of Ostrum AM, said: “We are delighted to open this new professional opportunity for Gaëlle within Ostrum AM. Her extensive asset management experience, sharp expertise, leadership, and the great quality of work she has delivered alongside our teams over the past three years constitute a valuable combination of assets in support of our ambition to be an asset management leader for major institutional clients.”
Malléjac has over 30 years of experience in asset management. After an initial experience within the fixed income management team at Groupama Financial Bank from 1994 to 1997, she joined Groupama Asset Management as a fixed income insurance manager and progressively held the positions of head of Institutional Fixed Income Management and then head of Fixed Income and Credit Management.
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In 2012, Malléjac was appointed director of fixed income management At Groupama, responsible for credit management, directional and aggregate fixed income management, and cash management. From 2015, she became director of active investments, overseeing fixed income, equity, convertible, multi-asset management, and financial engineering, while also being a member of the Executive Committee at Groupama Asset Management. She joined Ostrum AM in May 2021 as director of insurance management and ALM solutions.
According to her LinkedIn page, Paris-based Malléjac also works with AMF In France as a member of the advisory committee on management and institutional investors. It is a position that she has held at the French securities regulator since January 2023.
