Fabrice Bartoli

Fortis Investment Management (France) SA (FIM-F) is the French branch of Fortis Investments, the asset management arm and a subsidiary of the banking and insurance Fortis Group (BR: FTS). Fortis Investments is headquartered in Belgium with a global network of branches in the US, Europe and Asia. Fortis Investments manages a broad range of investment products across all major asset classes and markets. Fortis Investments is organized as a worldwide network of competence centers, each specialized in an asset class or geographical region. Their flagship product is the Fortis L Fund, a Luxembourg-domiciled umbrella fund comprising a wide variety of sub-funds, for the most part sectorial. Established in 1986, FIM-F was formerly known as Fimagest and is located in Paris. The firm specializes in European equity and fixed-income, convertible bonds and structured finance. They manage mutual funds, credit derivatives, funds of hedge funds and leveraged funds. They also contribute to the management of asset allocation and balanced funds. FIM-F's clients are institutional investors, particularly pension plans and corporate savings plans, as well as wholesalers and private individuals.

BNP Paribas Asset Management Belgium SA (BNPAM-BE) is the Belgian asset management subsidiary of BNP Paribas Asset Management France SAS, itself a subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA (EPA: BNP, ADR: BNPQY) in France. In 2010 they finalized the integration of Fortis Investment Management SA (Belgium), originally founded in 1996, and acquired by BNP Paribas in 2009. headquartered in Brussels, BNPAM-BE was founded in 2006 and manages a range of investment products across major asset classes and markets for international institutional investors and wholesalers, primarily in the Benelux countries and France.