The team will build a strategy that harnesses mathematical models using computer-driven algorithms and machine learning.

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has added to its quantitative investment expertise.

The European firm has recruited an active management quant team, led by industry veteran Bruno Taillardat, including senior quant portfolio managers, Xavier Marconnet and Frédéric Girod. They will be joined by two quantitative portfolio managers and a quant research analyst. They will be joining on 1 November.
 

Left to right: Xavier Marconnet, Bruno Taillardat, and Frédéric Girod.

The new quant team will build an active return strategy with a decision-making process based on advanced mathematical models using computer-driven algorithms and machine learning. (Such elements are part of the AI "use cases" that are proliferating in weath management, as discussed here and here.)

Taillardat, head of quantitative portfolio management, has a 25-year track record in quant investing. He will be joining from Amundi Paris where he has held the same position since 2016. Prior to that he was head of equity investments and quantitative and fundamental research at Unigestion for nine years. He will be based in Geneva, reporting to Edmond de Rothschild AM’s CIO Benjamin Melman, and will start on 1 November.

Marconnet, lead quantitative portfolio manager, is joining from Unigestion where he led the “Core AI” active equity strategies, focusing on the integration of machine learning and responsible investing.  

Girod, quantitative analyst and portfolio manager, is joining from Koch Supply & Trading. Previously, he was a quantitative analyst/data scientist at UEFA and founded Anaxagore Advanced Analytics, where he developed data-driven strategies focusing on derivatives. 

Marconnet and Girod are based in Geneva and will report to Taillardat.

Edmond de Rothschild AM manages €107 billion ($125.6 billion) in AuM on behalf of institutional clients and distributors.