The asset management firm Carmignac on Wednesday17 April held its quarterly shareholders’ meeting. The management team took the occasion to unveil its investment choices and results, and to review inflows in first quarter 2019. Virtually all of the range has seen positive performance, ranging from +14.93% YTD for the Carmignac Investissement fund to -3.96% for the Carmignac Long-Short Global Equities, the only fund to show negative results, and +4,23 % for the flagship Carmignac Patrimoine fund, but the firm has still been unable to stop the outflows. Carmignac has assets of €39.3bn currently, following outflows of €4bn in first quarter. “We knew that regaining the trust of our clients would not happen overnight. However, the new organisation put in place is already bearing fruit, and we are confident in the future,” says Rose Ouahba, head of the bond team, and co-manager of the Carmignac Patrimoine fund, at a conference. The head of bonds took the occasion to state that her team grew in early April with the recruitment of Marie-Anne Allier as co-manager of Carmignac Sécurité. Other recruitments will follow in the coming weeks and months. In management, Didier Saint-Georges, managing director at Carmignac, admits that there has probably been an “excess of prudence” in first quarter, particularly on the part of the Carmignac Patrimoine fund, whose average exposure to equities was 35%. The fund has gone from 28% at the end of 2018 to 42% currently, and may continue to climb in the coming weeks, or reach its limit of 50%, as the asset management firm anticipates a new phase of rising markets in 2019 and of confidence in the global economy. “Two risks threaten us. A greater-than-expected slowdown in the US economy, or no slowdown at all. That would call into question the actions of central banks, which have reduced the volatility of all markets,” says Frédéric Leroux, head of the cross-asset team at Carmignac. Leroux predicts that cyclical stocks and emerging markets will catch up in the coming months. As of 29 March 2019, the portfolio of Carmignac Patrimoine was 42% equities, 38% bonds, and 20% money markets.