French asset management : adapt or wither -
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Published on: 7/13/1996
Last Visited: 3/2/2002
"We are going to be strong in asset management as well," claims Gilles de Vaugrigneuse, BNP's director of asset management."We have the clients, we only need to organise our distribution to make it work."
Other French firms have made inroads in the Far East.Paribas Asset Management was the first continental European bank to get a license from Japan's Ministry of Finance in 1986, after which it raised $1 billion to manage from insurance companies.Societe Generale is also catching up: in January, it established a subsidiary in Singapore, called Societe Generale Asset Management Asia, with 12 people to start.In early April, SoGen signed an agreement with British bank Standard Chartered to sell their products in Asia and the Middle East.