Louise Watson

Natixis Investment Managers (Natixis IM) is strengthening its Australian presence creating a centralised multi-channel distribution platform to ensure clients across institutional, wholesale and retail markets have greater access to its range of investment managers.

The distribution platform will bring together the established institutional channels of the Natixis IM team with the retail and wholesale channels of the Investors Mutual Limited (IML) team to provide an enhanced customer experience benefiting from increased distribution resources and scale provided by one of the world’s largest asset managers.

In this strategic alignment of resources and repositioning for growth, IML will retain its portfolio management and product manufacturing capabilities enabling it to focus on its core activity of managing Australian equities, while also playing a key role in Natixis IM’s wholesale and retail activities.

Consolidating these distribution enhancements even further, Danny King has been promoted to Head of Institutional for Natixis IM and brings significant experience and networks to the role having been Director of Institutional Sales for the past two years. Jason Guthrie will lead the team responsible for wholesale and retail channels and become Natixis IM’s Head of Wholesale for Australia. Both, Danny and Jason will report to Louise Watson, Country Head for Australia and New Zealand, Natixis IM.

Fabrice Chemouny, Head of Asia Pacific, Natixis IM said: “This is an exciting development which reflects our commitment to Australia as a world-leading hub for asset management. While Natixis IM already has a good foundation in the Australian marketplace, focused on putting the client first we want to invest further in the right structures to ensure we can deliver on our commitment to investors over the long term.”

Natixis IM and its Affiliates have been managing assets and distributing active investment strategies in the Australian market for more than 20 years. Across Australia and New Zealand, Natixis IM and its Affiliates have accumulated in excess of $30 billion AUM.^[1]

Louise Watson said: “Natixis Investment Managers is excited to welcome a great team of individuals from IML. We want to combine our expertise in the region by offering a competitive and market leading platform that will deliver growth and the opportunity to bring new strategies to this market. Our focus on delivering sustainable solutions from a number of our affiliates has resonated strongly with investors as they align their investment choices with their beliefs. We also want to offer active investment solutions that are aligned to our clients’ needs which in turn, provide their clients with meaningful investment and retirement solutions.”

IML Chief Executive Officer Damon Hambly welcomed the announcement saying it would bring great opportunities to the business. “We are delighted to be part of an expanded and strengthened distribution platform that will provide even greater scope for IML to showcase its expertise to a broader investor market.”

In addition to IML continuing to manage Australian equities, IML will continue to play a key role in supporting Natixis IM’s wholesale and retail activities via its role as a responsible entity and product issuer for some of its Affiliate funds. These include the Loomis Sayles Global Equity Fund and active ETF as well as the Vaughan Nelson Global Equity SMID Fund and active ETF.

“The distribution platform provides IML and our international affiliates with a more co-ordinated way to approach the changing investment landscape, giving Natixis IM the breadth of opportunity and multi-channel capacity that is required to deliver highly active solutions for clients,” said Watson.

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[1] Source Natixis IM (30.6.2022)

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