A new CEO takes over the helm of Architas, the renamed business of Axa Private Management.

AXA Investment Managers announced the appointment of Rémi Lambert as chief investment officer for Architas, effective immediately. 

Based in Paris and reporting to Matthieu André, chief executive officer of Architas, Lambert is taking over from Jaime Arguello, who has retired. Lambert will also be joining Architas’ global management committee. Prior to this role, he was CIO of Architas France for over 10 years.

Lambert’s main priorities will include a continued focus on delivering investment performance, improving Architas’s core processes, as well as facilitating engagement across both AXA IM business units and AXA entities to which Architas provides its products and services.

“Rémi was a natural choice for the role given his previous position as CIO for Architas in France. Over the last few months, Remi and Jaime have been working closely to ensure a smooth transition,” André said.

Lambert started his career by being a consultant analyst with Datastream-Primark in 1996. In 1998, he joined Indocam (now part of Amundi) as a financial engineering and risk analyst. In 2000, he moved to Société Générale Asset Management as head of institutional marketing for multi-asset products. In 2003, Lambert moved to a portfolio management role within the multi-asset team and in 2005 was named head of institutional multi-asset management. In 2008, Lambert was hired by the AXA Group within the AXA Wealth Management unit as head of financial engineering. In 2010, with the launch of AXA Private Management (re-named in 2015 to Architas France), Lambert was appointed deputy CEO and CIO of Architas France.