AXA IM CEO steps down in leadership shake-up

Gérald Harlin has been appointed executive chairman

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Andrea Rossi has decided to step down as chief executive of AXA Investment Managers as part of a number of changes to its leadership.

Rossi, who has been chief executive since 2013, will become a strategic advisor to Gérald Harlin, who has been appointed executive chairman of AXA IM. Harlin, group deputy CEO and group CFO, has been made executive chairman "to implement the next phase of AXA IM's strategy with the aim of accelerating the company's development". Harlin and Rossi will both take up their new roles on 1 December and all members of the AXA IM management board will report to Harlin from then on. Christof Kutscher, who has been chairman of AXA IM's board of directors since 2014, has stepped down from his...

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