AXA IM appoints two experts to strengthen its Responsible Investment capabilities

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) today announces the appointment of two Responsible Investment experts, as part of its drive to further strengthen its ESG capabilities:

• Clément Bultheel is appointed Sustainability Coordinator, already effective. In this newly created position, he works on AXA IM’s sustainability policies and coordination topics to support AXA IM’s ESG efforts, including in relation with new sustainable finance policies. He joins from Quantis, where he worked as a Sustainable Finance Consultant. He reports to Clémence Humeau, Head of Sustainability Coordination and Governance.
• Benjamin Jacot is appointed ESG Quantitative Analyst, already effective. He is in charge of developing climate metrics and models, to assess physical and transition risk, portfolios alignment to climate scenarios in support of AXA IM’s objective to accelerate the transition to a Net Zero world. He joins from La Française, where he was Quantitative Risk Manager and Financial Engineer. He reports to Yolande Poulou, Head of RI Solutions, Models and Tools in AXA IM’s Quant Lab.

Biographies

Clément Bultheel

Clément Bultheel is Sustainability Coordinator within the Sustainability Coordination and Governance team at AXA IM. He joins from Quantis, where he worked as a Sustainable Finance Consultant since 2021. He began his career as a Research fellow at the Institute for Climate Economics in 2018, before working for nearly three years at the French Ministry of Ecology on regulatory issues related to sustainable finance in France and Europe.

Clément holds a Master’s of International Relations from the School of International and Strategic Relations, and a Master’s in Economic and Financial Engineering from the Université Paris-Dauphine.

Benjamin Jacot

Benjamin Jacot is ESG Quantitative Analyst within AXA IM’s Quant Lab. Prior to joining AXA IM, Benjamin worked as a Quantitative Risk Manager and Financial Engineer for La Française for five years, leading development of new pricing models for alternative asset classes, reverse stress tests for hedge fund strategies, liquidity stress tests for Real Estate funds, Climate VaR for transition & physical risk.

Benjamin graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and holds a Master’s in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Mathematics from Paris Diderot University.