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'''Bruno Crastes''' (born 15 May 1965) is a French fund manager specializing in absolute return/global bond strategies and CEO of H2O Asset Management.
'''Bruno Crastes''' (born 15 May 1965) is a French fund manager specializing in absolute return/global bond strategies and CEO of H2O Asset Management.

Revision as of 18:39, 31 May 2020

Bruno Crastes (born 15 May 1965) is a French fund manager specializing in absolute return/global bond strategies and CEO of H2O Asset Management.

Early life and education

Bruno Crastes is born on May 15, 1965 in the suburbs of Lyon. He received a BA in mathematics from the University of Lyon (Université Claude Bernard - Université Lyon I) and graduated in actuary from Institut de Science Financière et d’Assurances.[1]

Career

After graduation, he started his career at Bank Louis Dreyfus as a proprietary trader on bond market. He then moved to Indosuez Asset Management (later known as Crédit Agricole Asset Management and then Amundi), a French asset management company. He began managing global fixed income portfolios at Crédit Agricole Asset Management and rose through the ranks and from 1994 on, he headed the global fixed income desk. He was appointed CIO of CAAM London in 2002 and then CEO in 2005. The same year, he was the top manager in the Citywire Fund Manager ratings for France,.[2][3] He topped the league again in 2006.[4] In 2007, he was nominated for the "CIO of the Year" award.[5] In 2010, following the creation of Amundi, he was appointed member of the executive committee and Deputy Head of the Institutional Investment Division. "Top fund manager and fixed income specialist for over 20 years",[6] Bruno Crastes has been made famous developing an innovative range of absolute return range of open-ended funds called VaR funds from March 1999.[7][8] One of the VaR funds, CAAM Invest VaR 20 I EUR fund, won the Lipper award for Global macro in Europe in 2010.[9]

In 2010, he co-founded H2O AM LLP with Vincent Chailley, focusing on liquid absolute return strategies.[10] He was nominated "Best global bond manager of the past five years" in June 2013[11] with a performance of 89.71% vs. 33.65% for the peergroup. In December 2014, he arrived second in the Top 100 European fund managers ranking of l'Agefi Suisse.[12] He is currently acting as CEO of H2O AM and Vincent Chailley as CIO. He received the "Prix spécial BFMTV" on behalf of H2O AM in February 2015.[13] His fund H2O AM Multi Bond won the absolute return bond fund award at the Investment Week Specialist awards ceremony in Autumn 2015.[14] 2.2 billion-euro ($2.5 billion) of H2O Allegro fund are linked to Lars Windhorst and slumped due to illiquidity in 2019. He is on the board of Tennor, a vehicle owned by Lars Windhorst. H2O has emerged as among the biggest buyers of this Tennor bonds (previously Sapinda) [15] After more than 7 billion in withdraws from H2O, the fund announced in June 2019, that it would move its toxic debt to a new fund.[16]


Significant shareholders of H2O AM LLP include Ostrum Asset Management and H2O's employees.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Teams - About H2O AM - H2O Asset Management". H2o-am.com.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Les Français tiennent la route". Votreargent.lexpress.fr. 9 December 2005.
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  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Bruno Crastes: bi-polar markets are my enemy". Citywire.ch.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-16. Retrieved 2014-08-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)(in French)
  8. ^ "Interview - Bruno Crastes : " Our models are still based on an enhanced version of the Black-Litterman model "". Next-finance.net.
  9. ^ "And the award for best hedge fund goes to…". Reuters.
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-13. Retrieved 2014-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ "The five best global bond managers of the past five years revealed". Citywireglobal.com. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Top 100 Managers" (PDF). Agefi.com. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  13. ^ "prix-special-h2o-am". video-streaming.orange.fr.
  14. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-06-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-21/how-natixis-s-h2o-funds-are-linked-to-german-financier-windhorst. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-12-01. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)

External links

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