NewAlpha AM, a French global emerging manager acceleration specialist, has appointed Driss Lamrani (pictured) as Global Strategist, based in Paris.
Lamrani has close to fifteen years of professional experience in the financial sector. Formerly as advisor and deputy to GLG Partners Chief Investment Strategist, Driss forecasted monetary policy, political and geopolitical events and designed investment portfolios for their Global Macro and Emerging Markets Funds. A practiced speaker and respected strategist, Driss Lamrani has been a regular guest speaker at prestigious public and private conferences, working alongside current and former central bankers and politicians to build investment scenarios and forecasts. Driss spent the beginning of his career as actuarial consultant, financial analyst and financial engineer for large institutions including Arthur Anderson, Credit Lyonnais Securities and Credit Suisse. Driss Lamrani is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris and is a certified international investment analyst. Driss is trilingual.
As Global Strategist, reporting directly to NewAlpha AM’s President, Antoine Rolland, Driss will capitalise on his former experience as investment strategist.
Rolland says: “NewAlpha has multiple business lines including tailor-made mandates for large institutional investors and pension funds. The common denominator so to speak to all our business lines is the underlying competitive advantage, Emerging Managers. Driss’ experience is going to afford added value to our investors, portfolio construction being based on the sound market anticipations of an experienced global strategist.”
