Candriam has made several changes to its economic team. According to the company, Florence Pisani has been appointed Chief Economist following the retirement of Anton Brender, who has held this position since 2002. Additionally, Emile Gagna, an economist at Candriam since 2004, has been named Deputy Director of Economic Research.
Florence Pisani, who will succeed Anton Brender in January 2025, joined Candriam in 2002 as an economist, after starting her career at CPR Gestion in 1993. Appointed Director of Economic Studies in 2016, she has since overseen, in close collaboration with Brender, essential economic analyses and macroeconomic perspectives for Candriam’s management teams and investor clients. Pisani, who holds a PhD in Economics from Université Paris-Dauphine, also balances her professional expertise with academic teaching.
Regarding the second appointment, Emile Gagna as Deputy Director of Economic Research, the company highlights his tenure as an economist since 2004. “Emile has co-authored several works with Anton Brender and Florence Pisani, including Economics of Debt (2021), Money, Finance, and the Real Economy (2015), and The Sovereign Debt Crisis (2012),” the company states. Gagna is also a lecturer at Université Paris-Dauphine.
Anton Brender joined Candriam in 2002, after serving as Director of CEPII, Chief Economist, and Chairman of CPR Gestion. With a PhD in Economics from Université Paris I, Brender played a crucial role in the company’s development through the quality of his economic analyses and his efforts in mentoring a new generation of economists poised to succeed him. Over 22 years, he guided Candriam’s teams through economic uncertainties and periods of recovery, providing Candriam’s clients with clear and insightful perspectives in all circumstances.
In parallel to his professional career, Anton Brender also had a distinguished academic trajectory. A longtime associate professor at Université Paris-Dauphine, he imparted his knowledge to numerous generations of students. His publications bear lasting testimony to his detailed understanding of macroeconomic dynamics. Recently, the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques awarded him the Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize for his essay Democracies Facing Capitalism: The Price of Human Life.
“Anton Brender is an emblematic figure of Candriam, as well as of the Parisian and European financial centers. He was able to guide Candriam’s teams through economic uncertainties and periods of recovery. His expertise and dedication to knowledge transfer have had an extraordinary impact on our teams and on the asset management industry as a whole. Florence is an obvious and natural choice to succeed Anton. Her appointment ensures continuity in the excellence of analysis, building on the exceptional career of an economist whose expertise is recognized throughout the profession,” said Nicolas Forest, CIO of Candriam.
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