The Fund Managers

Jean-François Bouilly, CFA - 21 years experience in Japanese equities

Jean-François joined Crédit Lyonnais Japan in 1982 and started managing Japanese equities from Paris in 1984. He then opened as CIO, in 1991, the Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management office in Tokyo (CLIAM Japan). His mandates included absolute return funds.
Back to the Paris head office in 1999, he created and headed the "Equity Market and Portfolio Analysis Team" and became CLAM Equity Strategist.
Jean-François is a CFA Charterholder and past President of the French CFA Society. He received his engineer degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 1981.

Stéphane de Saint Hilaire - 20 years experience in Japanese equities

Stéphane started managing Japanese equities in 1985 in Geneva for Paribas and then for Crédit Suisse. He joined Crédit Lyonnais in Paris as Japanese Equity Portfolio Manager in 1994.
He became head of Japanese equities in 1998 and was sent to CLIAM Japan as CIO in 2000. There, he created the first Crédit Lyonnais Japanese Convertible Bonds Arbitrage Fund.
He returned to Paris in 2002 as head of non-European equities (USA, Asia & Emerging) and deputy-head of Global Sector Funds, in charge of Portfolio Construction.
Stéphane obtained his International MBA from Institut Supérieur de Gestion / University of San Francisco in 1986.

Control and Administration

Valérie Bureau - 20 years experience in equities

Valérie started in management consulting in 1984 before joining Crédit Lyonnais as a financial analyst. In 1995, she became fund manager for Emerging market equities.
As from 2002, she held the role of Product Manager and General Secretary for the fund management division of Crédit Lyonnais / Crédit Agricole Asset Management.
Valérie joined Latitude CM as a partner in May 2005.
She graduated at "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris" in 1983 and HEC in 1988 (Master in International Finance).

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