Leonardo Asset Management is the fund management company jointly set up by DNCA Finance and Gruppo Banca Leonardo to expand the asset managment expertise of the group in Europe. This development is based on two Sicavs with compartments (Leonardo Invest and Ingenia). According to specialities of every asset management company, compartments' management is delegated to DNCA Finance in France or to Leonardo SGR in Italy – the asset management arm of Banca Leonardo.
Chairman of the Leonardo Invest Sicav
Institutional portfolio and UCITS manager
Graduate of HEC Paris School of Management.
After a career with Oddo & Cie (1987-1994), he joined LCF Rothschild AM, where he became a member of the Executive Board and Head of French and European Equities Management.
He is now CEO of DNCA Finance.
Client Manager - institutions and investment funds Has a graduate degree (DESS) in management. A former institutional manager with Oddo & Cie, and then member of the executive board of Oddo Asset Management (1989-2002); ended up manager responsible for equity investments. He joined DNCA Finance as a director-partner on 2 January 2003.
European UCITS manager Chemical engineer, Graduate of the Polytechnical College of the University of Sao Paolo (Brazil)
Having begun his career with Louis Dreyfus & Cie, he moved to Barings in 1993 before helping to create Tocqueville Value Europe in 2000. He then joined Aviva Gestion in 2002 as a European portfolio manager. He has been with DNCA Finance since 12 November 2007 and currently manages the Centifolia Europe fund.
Client Manager – private clients and investment funds, manager in charge of scalable investing. Graduate of the SFAF (French society of financial analysts). After starting his career at Schelcher Prince, he joined Oddo et Cie (1986-1996) as institutional manager before going to Richelieu Finance, where he became investment management director. He is one of the founders of DNCA Finance.
Institutional portfolio and UCITS manager Graduate of HEC Paris School of Management, with a DESS (five-year degree) in Taxation, Member of SFAF (French Society of Financial Analysts).
Having begun his career in Project Financing at BNP Paribas Australia and IXIS CIB, he moved to IXIS Securities as a European infrastructures sector analyst.
After three years, he joined the Lazard-IXIS team to execute transactions on the primary market.
He came to DNCA Finance on 2 May 2007, and currently manages the following
Bond manager.
Actuary with a degree from the University of Lyons (ISFA).After starting his career at CDC, he joined Schelcher Prince Finance in 1984,occupying various bond manager positions before heading up trading activities on European derivatives and bond markets,and then becoming associate director and risk controller in 2001.
Cyril Freu is a graduate of the French financial analysts' association (Société Française des Analystes Financiers), has a post-graduate degree from Sciences-Po Paris (Paris's Political And Social Science Institute) and a master's degree from Paris-Dauphine University. He began his career as a broking house financial analyst from 1998 to 2005, first at CPR Finance and then at IXIS Securities. He was elected best financial analyst across all sectors in 2005 (Extel Focus France, AGEFI). In 2006, he was transferred to the proprietary management team at IXIS CIB – which later became Natixis – and manages a diversified portfolio working on fundamental valuation strategies. Cyril Freu joined the management team of DNCA Finance in September 2009.
Mathieu Picard has a post-graduate degree from Sciences-Po Paris (Paris's Political And Social Science Institute) and a master's degree from Paris-Dauphine University. He was a broking house financial analyst from 2002 to 2006 with IXIS Securities. From June 2006 to July 2009, Mathieu Picard was financial analyst in the proprietary management team of IXIS CIB, which later became NATIXIS. He joined the DNCA Finance management team in September 2009.
Mario Moschetta has 20 years experience in the markets, started his career as fixed income portfolio manager in IMI Luxembourg then moved to Primegest with the same role.
In 1995 moved to BPM SGR as Head of Fixed Income portfolio management. Afterwards Mario moved to DWS to manage discretionary managed fixed income and balanced portfolios. He joined Banca Leonardo in 2006 with the position of CIO of Leonardo SGR.
