CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Loic Fery
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Chenavari Investment Managers
Loic Fery is Chief Executive and co-Chief Investment Officer of CHENAVARI
INVESTMENT MANAGERS (www.chenavari.com), a group of regulated asset management companies (London, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Sydney) focused on credit, debt and structured finance public and private markets. Loic Fery created CHENAVARI INVESTMENT MANAGERS at the end of 2007. Since then, CHENAVARI INVESTMENT MANAGERS established as one of the best performing alternative credit managers globally; with approx. $5.5 billion assets under management (as of Macrh 1st 2015) and 100 investment professionals, it is one of the largest independent non-US credit hedge fund managers.
CHENAVARI INVESTMENT MANAGERS' clients include institutional investors, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices globally. Chenavari credit funds steady performance was recently acknowledged with several industry awards, such as Institutional Investors, Eurohedge and Hedge Fund Magazine.
Prior to setting up Chenavari, Loic Fery was Managing Director, Global Head of Credit Markets of the investment bank of CREDIT AGRICOLE. He was responsible globally for Credit, Structured Credit & High Yield activities of the bank, including Trading, Structuring and Sales activities. In 2005, he became the youngest member appointed to the "Cercle des Dirigeants" of CREDIT AGRICOLE Group.
Loic Fery graduated from the French leading business school HEC and started his career in credit markets in Hong Kong -where he lived for 4 years- while running the Asian Credit Trading desk for SOCIETE GENERALE. Loic Fery is often mentioned as one of market participants who pioneered the development of credit derivatives market and one of the only European alternative investor who successfully developed an independent asset manager since 2007. He co-authored several books on credit derivatives and securitisation topics, focusing on the convergence of credit markets activities and funds/private equity activities. He is also an occasional lecturer on alternative asset management at industry conference and business schools.
Loic Fery, 41, lives in London and is married with 3 children. As a personal interest, he is the owner of FC Lorient (www.fclweb.fr), a French Premier League football club.
