Paris-based Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Vianney Hocquet as Hybrid Corporate Debt Portfolio Manager.
Hocquet joins Edmond de Rothschild AM’s fixed income investment team led by Alain Krief, which manages €8.6 billion.
Hocquet will be co-lead on the Hybrid Corporate Debt strategy together with Marc Lacraz, also a portfolio manager at Edmond de Rothschild AM.
Edmond de Rothschild AM was a pioneer in hybrid corporate debt and has raised over €700 million in the strategy over the past three years.
Hocquet joins Edmond de Rothschild AM with almost 15 years experience in European bond markets. He was previously Senior Credit Manager at Amundi, first in London and then in Paris, where he managed benchmarked, total return and dated global bond portfolios, as well as Euro credit strategies.
Previously, he held the same position at Pioneer Investments in Dublin (acquired by Amundi in 2017) where he helped launch and manage a global subordinated bond fund.
He began his career at BNP Paribas in Paris as a proprietary bond trader in 2010. Hocquet holds an engineering degree from École Polytechnique, as well as an MSc in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University in California.
