French investment banking firm AXA Group has selected AXA Wealth as its European multi-manager investment centre.
The centre will bring together AXA Wealth’s multi-management business, Architas, with the private management businesses in France and Belgium as well as the AXA Investment Managers Multi-Manager business, which was bought by Architas in July.
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AXA Group will bring all these businesses under one ‘hub’, which will be managed by Architas.
The hub will manage close to EUR30bn of multi-managed assets, as well as the sourcing and management of external fund managers used within the European unit linked propositions.
The investment centre will be led by Hans Georgeson as CEO, and will include 150 staff across London, Paris and Brussels.
AXA Wealth CEO Mike Kellard said: "Architas funds are central to our proposition here in the UK, and leveraging the Architas multi-manager platform across Europe will bring real scale to its activities whilst supporting one of the Group’s key strategic priorities.
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