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Christophe Fritsch

Global Head of Alternative Credit, BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts Member of Management Board of BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts

Christophe Fritsch is Global Head of Alternative Credit at BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts, the alternative investments platform of BNP Paribas Asset Management.

As Global Head of Alternative Credit, Christophe oversees the Portfolio Management of a performing and diversified range of alternative assets, covering the entire risk/return spectrum. This includes Leveraged Loans, Private Debt, CLOs, Asset-Backed Securities, Asset backed Lending, SRT & Specialty Finance, Insurance Linked Securities, whole loans, among others.

Before this role, Christophe was Head of Fund Management at AXA IM Alts’ Structured Finance Department. Christophe had been in this role since 2014. He was one of the founding members who contributed 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, development, 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.

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    AXA IM and BNPP AM are progressively merging

    AXA IM and BNPP AM are progressively merging and streamlining our legal entities to create a unified structure

    AXA Investment Managers joined BNP Paribas Group in July 2025. Following the merger of AXA Investment Managers Paris and BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Europe and their respective holding companies on December 31, 2025, the combined company now operates under the BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Europe name.