
Sycomore Asset Management has hired the former head of multi-asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management as its new chief executive.
Denis Panel has joined Sycomore AM, part of Generali Investments, to replace Emeric Préaubert, who co-founded the firm in 2001.
Until recently, Panel served as global head of the multi-asset, quantitative and solutions (MAQS) division at BNP Paribas AM.
Panel began his career in 1994 at Société Générale AM, where he served as a fixed income fund manager, before joining Crédit Agricole AM in 1997, where he was appointed global head of multi-asset investments in 2004.