Patrick Zeenni, CFA has been Head of Investment Grade & Credit Arbitrage Management 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 Zeenni, CFA
Research Paper, Adapt to thrive, ESG, SRI, Fixed Income, Dany da Fonseca, Vincent Compiègne, Patrick Zeenni
Based on our long-standing views of the financial benefits of sustainability,
we integrate some level of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factor
analysis across all our investment processes, and particularly for our sustainable
investment strategies.
Patrick Zeenni, Fixed Income, ESG, SRI, Credit
A sweet spot for euro investment grade investors
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.