Selwood Asset Management France

A credit investment manager based in Paris

Selwood AM France is an independent asset management company based in Paris and regulated by the AMF since February 2021.
Created in 2020, the company is composed of credit trading specialists and proposes long only and absolute return strategies.

Guillaume Merle

Prior to joining Selwood, Guillaume was a Partner of Tages Capital LLP, director for France and in charge of customized solutions portfolio’s for large institutions globally. Before that, he was the former Head of Fixed Income Diversified team at La Française Asset Management. He was also PM at La Française des Placement and sales in Fixed Income derivatives at Credit Agricole. Guillaume is a qualified actuary from the French Actuarial Institute and holds a specialised masters in International Finance from HEC School of Management in Paris.

Mathieu Labelle

Mathieu, a seasoned credit and rates trader, brings more than two decades of industry experience. He has a strong background in market-making for a range of asset classes and financial instruments, including structured credit and derivatives, government bonds and covered bonds. Prior to joining Selwood as a portfolio manager in 2020, Mathieu served as a senior credit and rates trader at Credit Agricole CIB in London. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Rouen and in Finance from CNAM/CFPB.

Thibaut Brohard

Thibault is a credit trader with more than 15 years of industry experience. He has a strong expertise in structured credit investments having been a structured credit trader most of his career. Prior to joining Selwood, Thibault was senior PM at Orchard Asset Management and Christofferson & Rob in London. He is also a former UBS and Credit Agricole. Thibault holds a Master of Science from London School of Economics and a degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris with specialization in Economics and Applied Mathematics.

Fares Bouanika

Prior to joining Selwood AM France, Fares worked within JP Morgan in London where he was in charge of monitoring and reporting the investment limits for the Credit trading businesses (correlation and indices) and to control the Risk and PnL for the EMEA Fixed Income Financing desk (structured and synthetic). Prior to that Fares worked within the Credit Agricole group. Fares holds a master degree of applied mathematics from ISFA Lyon with specialization in financial engineering . He is also Financial Risk Manager (FRM) qualified by certification from GARP.