The challenges of bond management in a low-rate environment

with Ibrahima KOBAR

Head of Fixed Income, Natixis Asset Management

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In an environment of increasingly low or even negative interest rates, how can institutional investors, who traditionally invest in bonds, cope with their financial production constraints? Should they turn to other types of assets, but at what risk?
We asked our guest speaker to tell us how an asset management company is adapting to this new context, which is also likely to impact the profitability of its activities.
Ibrahima KOBAR, CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), will share with us his 25 years of experience in the fixed-income markets.
in the fixed-income markets, where differentiation is now a matter of agility combined with a high level of technicality and
anticipation, enlightened advice and a clear understanding of the risks associated with the products and
products and services.
Our guest began his career in 1989 as a statistician in the economic banking and financial research department of Société Générale.
at Société Générale. In 1991, he joined Midland Bank as an actuary/rates manager.
In 1994, he joined Ixis Asset Management as an insurance portfolio manager in the bond management department.
In 1998, he was appointed Head of Insurance Management, Derivatives and Structured Products.
In 2007, he was promoted to Head of Bond Management at Natixis Asset Management, and in 2010 to Head of Fixed Income Management, overseeing the company's fixed-income activities.
Fixed Income Management, overseeing the Bond Management and Money Market Management divisions. He joins the Executive
Committee of Natixis AM that same year.
Ibrahima Kobar is a qualified actuary from the Institut de Statistiques de Paris (ISUP) and a member of the Institut des
Actuaires Français (IAF).

A cocktail reception will be held at the end of the conference. More information in the attached document

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