Jean-Paul Pierre Villain

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority provides investing funds. It manages a global investment portfolio across many asset classes and sub-categories. It invests directly in global financial markets. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.

ADIA-IM’s investment departments are responsible for building and managing investment portfolios within the parameters set for them through the asset allocation process. These departments, which invest across multiple asset classes and geographies, have discretion over the origination and recommendation of investment proposals. The firm’s strategy and planning activities work in tandem, aligning organizational priorities with investment objectives through the ADIA Wide-Planning (AWP) process. The Strategy & Planning Department (SPD) plays a central role in ADIA-IM’s investment process, with responsibility for developing, maintaining and periodically reviewing ADIA’s Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) across more than two dozen asset classes and sub-categories.

BNP Paribas France manages a range of active investment strategies – both fundamental and quantitative, in addition to strategies managed to replicate specific indices and benchmarks – across a wide universe of assets extending from equities, fixed income, multi-asset and LDI solutions to alternatives. Their investment teams share a number of common beliefs: there are opportunities to maximize long-term returns in inefficient markets; a combination of systematic evaluation and qualitative insight is the best way to identify opportunities; a disciplined, consistent investment process is vital for investment success over the long term; and risk management needs to be fully embedded in the investment process.