about us
h2o am in numbers
years of expertise in
asset management
fund categories :
Absolute Return Unconstrained Benchmark Anchored
open-ended funds
Our mission is to assist investors in achieving their objectives by placing performance and risk over the investment horizon at the heart of their considerations.
WHO we are
Founded in 2010 and with offices in Paris, Monaco, London, Geneva and Singapore, H2O AM is an independent asset management company, mainly specialising in Global Macro strategies.
Based on an investment process developed over more than thirty years and employing proprietary quantitative engineering, the team implements a discretionary investment process based on a Top-Down and Value approach.
Through relative value strategies in bonds, currencies and equities, H2O AM offers its clients the benefits of diversified alpha with assumed and controlled risk over a defined time horizon.
OUR APPROACH
Our belief is that value diversification by arbitraging market biases offers a robust source of alpha over time. Drawing on an investment process developed over more than thirty years and on solid quantitative engineering, the teams implement discretionary management using a top-down and value approach. Through in-depth macroeconomic analysis, a fine-tuned assessment of capital flows and relative value strategies on bonds, credit, currencies and equities, H2O AM offers its clients the benefits of diversified alpha with an assumed and controlled risk over a given time horizon.
Diversification is targeted not only across assets and strategies, but also by investment horizons. H2O AM’s manager expertise focuses on market equilibria with the aim of controlling risk across the investment horizon of each fund.
H2O AM is guided by a strong corporate culture that emphasises passion, fortitude and performance, with an unwavering commitment to its clients.
what defines us
Our Investment Philosophy is based on
Active management.
Value diversification strategies by arbitraging market biases as a robust source of alpha over time.
Relative value strategies in bonds, currencies & equities.
Long-term allocations and top-down approach.
Our values
Passion
We are passionate about decoding markets to create value within the risk framework defined by our investors.
Fortitude
Resilient, we remain true to our convictions over the defined investment horizons.
Performance
At H2O AM, we accept short-term volatility in the search for long-term performance, and we challenge conventional wisdom.
We embrace our boldness.
Our team
Members of the Global Executive Committee, for all H2O Group entities
Babak Abrar
Member of the Global Executive Committee of H2O AM Holding and Managing Director of H2O AM Switzerland, Babak Abrar is Head of Sales and Marketing for the H2O AM Group. Before joining H2O AM in 2021 as Group Chief Sales & Marketing officer, Babak Abrar worked for over 13 years at Natixis Investment Managers as an Executive Managing Director. Co-head of the distribution for Western Europe, he was leading a team of over 50 people, covering financial intermediaries, family offices, institutional and private banks in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, Monaco and Israel.
Babak has more than twenty years’ experience in the financial industry. He started his career at J.P. Morgan (Suisse) SA and then worked in the pension fund Business Development division at Lombard Odier. Babak Abrar holds a Master’s degree in Management, with a specialization in Finance, from the HEC Lausanne School of Economics in Switzerland and a Foundation for Business Leadership certificate from IMD.
Vincent Chailley
Member of H2O AM Holding's Global Executive Committee, Vincent Chailley is the H2O AM Group's Chief Investment Officer and H2O AM Monaco SAM CIO. Vincent Chailley started his career in 1995 in the Research & Development team of CPR Capital Markets department. In 1996, he joined CAAM, first as an analyst in the Strategy team, then as an investment manager in the Asset Allocation team. In July 1998, he transferred to the global fixed income department as an investment manager.
From 2002 to 2010 he headed the global fixed income and absolute performance team of CAAM (then Amundi) London. He is a founding partner and Group CIO of H2O AM. Vincent Chailley created and developed CAAM’s global absolute return product range (the “VaR” funds) from 1999 onwards. He managed these funds personally until he left CAAM/Amundi in April 2010. These funds totalled €42bln AuM as at end 2006. Vincent Chailley is a member of the French Actuaries Institute and holds a postgraduate degree in Economics and Mathematical modelling from ENSAE. He also holds a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Paris Dauphine.
Loïc Guilloux
Member of the Global Executive Committee of H2O AM Holding, Loic Guilloux is Chair of H2O AM Europe and Corporate Secretary of the H2O AM Group. Before joining H2O AM in May 2016, Loïc Guilloux spent 22 years in the Global Markets industry (FICC and Equities), 16 years at Merrill Lynch International, based in London and Paris, where he ran several activities (Asset/Liability & Investment Solutions for Global Equities in Europe, FICC for Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Complex Interest Rates & Forex Options Sales in EMEA, SVT representative…) and 6 years at Crédit Agricole Indosuez where, at the end of his tenure, he was deputy Head of Fixed Income sales. Previously he served as forward observation officer at 35° Régiment Parachutiste and section head at 6° Bataillon d’Infanterie de Marine (Gabon). Loïc graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a DEA de Gestion from La Sorbonne and a Maîtrise d’Economie Appliquée from Paris-Dauphine.
Jean-Christophe Morandeau
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Global Executive Committee of H2O AM Holding, member of the Supervisory Boards of H2O AM Europe, H2O AM LLP and H2O Monaco, Jean-Christophe Morandeau is the Legal, Compliance and Finance Director of the H2O AM Group. Jean-Christophe Morandeau began his career in 1988 as a wealth manager at Paribas Bank. He then joined Paribas Asset Management as the Head of Legal Department for French UCITS in 1992. In 1999 he joined Credit Agricole Asset Management as the Legal Head of Products & Corporate-France and in 2004 became the Deputy Head of Legal and Fiscal Department.
Jean-Christophe Morandeau joined Natixis Asset Management in 2008 as the General Counsel. He was promoted to the Head of Legal, Monitoring (Compliance and Internal Control) and Risk in November 2014 and became a member of the Executive Committee in February 2015. Jean-Christophe joined H2O AM in January 2019 as Global Head of Legal and Compliance and he was appointed Group General Secretary in 2021. In 2025, Jean-Christophe was appointed Chair of H2O AM’s Global Executive Committee and remains Head of Legal, Compliance and Finance. Jean-Christophe holds a Master’s degree in Administration and Management from IAE of Lille.
Juliette Pianko
Vice-Chair of the Global Executive Committee of H2O AM Holding and a member of the Supervisory Boards of H2O AM Europe, H2O AM LLP and H2O Monaco. Juliette Pianko is also Director of Risk and Operations for the H2O AM Group. Juliette Pianko began her carrier in 2004 within the Middle Office department of Credit Agricole Asset Management (which became Amundi in 2010) in London. She became Head of the Middle Office in 2005, managing a team of 10 people and has worked on various operational projects from collateral management to implementation of booking/ clearing systems and on boarding of prime brokers. Juliette joined H2O AM in May 2011 as treasury manager. She became a Portfolio manager in September 2014, and she was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2020. She was appointed Group Chief Risk Officer in 2021, relocating to the Paris office, and Head of Risk & Operations in 2023. In 2025, Juliette was appointed Vice-Chair of H2O AM’s Global Executive Committee. Juliette holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Paris 1 Sorbonne University.
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