The innovative risk-management and portfolio-construction solutions to financial institutions provider Axioma has entered into an agreement with Sycomore Asset Management, a French asset manager with €4.6 billion under management. Sycomore will deploy Axioma Risk, the company’s enterprise-wide risk management solution.
Deploying Axioma Risk will enable Sycomore AM to analyze and understand risks more effectively so that this assessment becomes a dynamic and differentiating part of its investment process.
Nicolas Rossignol, Axioma
Nicolas Rossignol, managing director at Axioma, commented:
As the multi-asset class investment market expands, asset managers need state-of-the-art analytics to understand complex portfolio dynamics. We look forward to deploying our state-of-the-art risk management solutions with Sycomore AM to enhance its investment performance.
Alain Robert Dautun, Head of Risk Management at Sycomore
As an investment manager, Sycomore AM is facing increasingly challenging demands that require a high level of sophistication in terms of risk assessment,” explains Alain Robert Dautun, Head of Risk Management at Sycomore AM. “Axioma Risk offers the flexibility both in terms of data and models to tackle these issues. Moreover, extensive risk measures, data quality and a wide stress-testing framework were key factors in our decision-making.