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Pascal Christory

Global Head of Private Equity BNPP AM Alts & CEO BNPP AM Prime

Pascal founded AXA IM Prime (now BNPP AM Prime) in July 2022 as CEO and Managing Partner. Since July 2025, he is also global head of Private Equity at BNPP AM Alts and a member of the BNPP AM Alts' management board. 

Previously, starting at the end of 2018, Pascal was Chief Investment Officer of the AXA Group, responsible for AXA Group assets of €575bn as of December 2021. Together with his team, Pascal designed and executed AXA's global investment strategy both on core listed assets and illiquid strategies (real estate, infrastructure, private equity and private debt). Pascal and his teams led the AXA Alternative Acceleration ambition project resulting in 25% of AXA's balance sheet being invested in alternatives. Between the end of 2012 and the end of 2018, Pascal was AXA France's Chief Investment Officer, managing the €180bn AXA France balance sheet and led AXA Group's Real Estate Center of Expertise, specifically, the transversal management of the €35bn Real Estate portfolio of the AXA companies worldwide. Pascal also led the Unit Linked Center of Expertise, structuring the financial content of all Unit Linked products promoted by AXA entities worldwide.

In 2010, Pascal led AXA IM's global Asset Allocation, Derivatives and Quantitative management teams within the Multi Asset Client Solutions Group. Pascal's past experience includes the role of Global Head of Solution Engineering, Structuring and Development, comprising client relationship management and financial solution advisory services for AXA Insurance Companies globally. 

Pascal joined AXA IM in 2001 as a Structured Portfolio Manager and became Head of Structured and Index management in 2003. 

He started his career at Credit Agricole CIB developing interest rate options pricing tools and subsequently moved to Cardif Asset Management, the insurance subsidiary of BNP Paribas.

Pascal graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, from the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) and from Paris-Dauphine University.

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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.