Patrick Zeenni, CFA has been Head of Investment Grade & Credit Arbitrage Management and Deputy Global Head of Credit since 2019. Prior to that, he was Deputy Head of High Yield & Credit Arbitrage management since 2011.
Before joining Candriam in 2009, Patrick began his career in 1995 in Bond Origination at Société Générale, moving a year later to Bayerische Landesbank as Head of Bonds and Derivatives. In 2003, he became a Senior Credit Fund manager at Candriam.
Patrick holds Master’s degrees in Finance and in Financial Markets from Paris Dauphine University. He has been a CFA charterholder since 2010.
Discover the latest articles by Patrick Zeeni, CFA
Patrick Zeenni, Fixed Income, ESG, SRI, Credit
After 2022, which covered the end of a decade of monetary policy loosening, 2023 has been the year of the repricing of the whole interest rate curve. The end of Central Banks’ "higher for longer" mantra supported a steepening of the yield curves and repriced real interest rates which are back now in positive territory, for the first time in close to ten years.
Q&A, Philippe Noyard, Patrick Zeenni, Nicolas Jullien, Fixed Income
A long/short credit with a long bias
We continue to discover interesting opportunities in the corporate bond universe. Philippe Noyard, Global Head of Fixed Income at Candriam, Patrick Zeenni, CFA, Head of Investment Grade & Credit Arbitrage, and Nicolas Jullien, CFA, Head of High Yield & Credit Arbitrage, explain how their approach aims to optimise the credit market’s potential with the objective of generating returns.
Q&A, Patrick Zeenni, Guillaume Benoit, Mouine Darwich
Credit Long Short: a diversified alternative strategy targeting moderate volatility
Patrick Zeenni, CFA, Head of Investment Grade & Credit Arbitrage, Guillaume Benoit, Senior Fund Manager / Credit Analyst and Mouine Darwich, CFA, Fund manager/ Quantitative credit Analyst explain why a Credit Long Short strategy could be a "must have" in a diversified portfolio.
Patrick Zeenni, ESG, SRI, Fixed Income
Yields at the end of the tunnel. Green light for a sustainable euro investment grade strategy!
Bond investors did have a rough time in 2022. But a new era begun when central banks initiated their forced march of interest rates hikes, bringing some fresh opportunities to investors.