Lyxor Asset Management’s CEO Laurent Seyer has announced he is leaving the firm to join AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) as global head of investment solutions.
 

He will replace Thibaud de Vitry who has already left the company and will start in his new role on 2 May this year, reporting to AXA IM chief executive Dominique Carrel-Billiard.
 


Seyer has been CEO of Lyxor, which has €78.5 billion of assets under management, since 2006.
 


Carrel-Billiard said that in his new position Seyer would be responsible for ensuring the company’s solutions offering was innovative and increasing its visibility, as well as accelerating the commercial development of AXA IM’s solutions business.
 


AXA IM’s investment solutions platform has assets under management of €114 billion and specialises in providing investors with solutions to optimise the risk and return of a portfolio of assets and asset allocation.
 


Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking confirmed the appointment of Ines de Dinechin as Lyxor’s new chief executive officer, effective as of the end of March 2012.
 


De Dinechin has spent the majority of her career in markets activities, holding several management positions in financial markets before she was named global head of fixed income structured products at Societe Generale.