Speaker Profile: Christophe Fritsch

Christophe Fritsch is Global Head of Alternative Credit and a member of the AXA IM Alts Management Board. AXA IM Alts is one of the largest managers of alternative credit assets in Europe today, managing €58bn for 190+ clients.
As head of the Alternative Credit business, he oversees the Portfolio Management of a performing and diversified range of alternative assets, covering the entire risk/return spectrum. This includes Leverages Loans and Private Debt, CLOs, Asset-Backed Securities, Bank Capital Solutions & Specialty Finance, Insur-ance Linked Securities, Mortgages, among others. In 2024, AXA IM Alts was recognized as CLO Senior In-vestor of the Year, underscoring the expertise of its commercial platforms and position as one of the market leaders in sustainability, innovation and client service. 
Before this role, Christophe was Head of Fund Management at AXA IM Alts’ Structured Finance Depart-ment. Christophe had been in this role since 2014. He was one of the founding members who contrib-uted to the development of the Structured Finance platform (renamed Alternative Credit platform in 2022).
Christophe joined AXA IM in 2000 working in Actuarial and Financial Engineering. In 2003, he joined the Structured Finance division, undertaking various roles in structuring, portfolio management, develop-ment, and negotiation of structured products.
He graduated from ENSAE with a major in Stochastic Modelling, Statistics, Finance and Actuarial Science. He is a qualified actuary from IAF, the French Institute of Actuarial Science, and holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne.