Carmignac Gestion

Carmignac Gestion is an investment management company owned by its employees. The company was founded in 1989 by Édouard Carmignac, who is currently the CEO of the company. Carmignac Gestion is based out of Paris and has an additional office located in London. The company has won a variety of awards including the Lipper Fund Awards in 2011 for the best euro flexible diversified fund and at the AGEFI - Forum gestion d'actifs France for being the best management company as well as the transparency prize at the De Tijd / L'2cho Fund Awards in Belgium. The company’s funds themselves are also award winning, with its total awards numbering over 30 in just the past two years including the Le Revenu France award for the best international equity over a decade and Euro Fund Award in 2015 for the best fund over 10 years. Carmignac Gestion currently has over 240 employees made up of 20 nationalities, 6 working languages, and 30 fund managers and analysts in its management team. The company has over 1.9 billion euros in total equity with over 57 billion euros in assets under management. Carmignac Gestion distributes its funds in 12 European countries and Singapore and has a varied client base including independent advisors, which alone makes up over a third of its clientele, banks and networks, network financial advisors, institutional clients, and private clients, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing clientele. The company invests in a variety of sectors including information technology, which alone makes up almost a third of allocations, consumer discretionary, finance, materials, health care, and others, in order of decreasing allocation. The company conducts over 1,500 visits each year to various companies, production sites, directors, etc., and currently offers 24 funds and 15 investment strategies, with funds including its Emergents USD, Euro Entrepreneurs, Portfolio China, and various others.