{"id":82359,"date":"2018-06-12T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/french-asset-manager-comgest-bets-on-london-with-new-office-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:46:12","slug":"french-asset-manager-comgest-bets-on-london-with-new-office-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/french-asset-manager-comgest-bets-on-london-with-new-office-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"French asset manager Comgest bets on London with new office launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/assets\/uploads\/main-image\/full_width_article_body_image\/new-bond-street-has-become-europes-most-expensive-avenue-104352334-5b1fde8eb0175.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Paris-headquartered asset manager Comgest has backed London with the launch of its first UK office in Mayfair.<\/p>\n<p>UK-based clients represent approximately seven per cent of Comgests asset under management, around \u00a31.8bn out of \u00a325.1bn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/285269\/asset-managers-celebrated-their-best-performance-since-2010\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Strong performance by asset managers fails to prevent fees being squeezed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comgests chief executive officer Arnaud Cosserat said: \u201cComgest has always taken a long-term view. Establishing a local presence in the UK market, despite Brexit, reflects our enduring commitment to servicing our British investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The firm works with UK pension funds, family offices and wealth managers across emerging markets, Asia, Japan and European equity.<\/p>\n<p>Comgest has hired Iain MacPherson from Standard Life Investments as a member of its investor relations team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/283657\/moodys-warns-fca-rule-changes-credit-negative-gbp8-trillion\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Moody&#039;s warns FCA rule changes are credit negative for fund managers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosserat said: \u201cHis depth of experience within the UK wholesale market is a great addition to the team and his partnership approach to relationships with investors reflects very much the values of our firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based in the companys new Mayfair office, he will work with country-head Jane Russell who works out of Comgests Paris headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>City A.M.<\/em> MacPherson said that Comgest saw London as a long-term growth opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComgest are very much long-term in their investments, they are about quality growth and they see this as a long-term plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/287193\/uk-tech-industry-pulled-more-than-three-times-much\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UK tech wins the top spot in European venture funding post-Brexit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that the aim of the office was to service existing clients and expand in the UK, with plans to make further hires in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would hope to be able to build a team from here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>MacPherson said that the prospect of Brexit did not dampen the firms desire to open a London outpost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing was put on hold they were quick to get me in the door\u2026 this has been on the cards since June last year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Comgest aims to increase the accessibility of its equity funds to the UK wholesale market. It has added sterling-denominated share classes across its product range in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-headquartered asset manager Comgest has backed London ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French asset manager Comgest bets on London with new office launch - Business News Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paris-headquartered asset manager Comgest has backed London ..\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/french-asset-manager-comgest-bets-on-london-with-new-office-launch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French asset manager Comgest bets on London with new office launch - 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