OUR INVESTMENT TEAM

Christophe Nagy joined Comgest in 2009 and is an Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in US equities. He is also a member of the Comgest Group's Investment Committee.

Christophe co-leads Comgest’s US equity strategy and has played an instrumental role in building the US equity team and guiding their research activities. Before joining Comgest, he worked at Mercer Consulting from 1991, at Carmignac Gestion from 1998 where he managed global growth portfolios, and then from 2002 as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management.

Christophe holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Ecole des Mines in St-Etienne in France and received an MBA from the INSEAD graduate business school near Paris in 1991. 

Alexandre Narboni joined Comgest in 2009 and is an Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in Global equities. He is also a member of the Comgest Group's Investment Committee.

Alexandre is also responsible for developing and supervising Comgest’s Flex strategies, the firm's first investment strategies to employ hedging techniques with the objective of reducing volatility and drawdowns. He previously worked in the Group’s US equity team. Before joining Comgest, he worked in New York in asset-backed securities at Société Générale from 2005-2007 and then as a hedge fund credit Analyst at HSBC.

Alexandre graduated from the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE) in Paris and Columbia University in New York where he was awarded a Master’s degree in Financial Mathematics.

Laure Négiar joined Comgest in 2010 and is an Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in Global equities. She is also a non-executive member of the Board of Partners and the Global Equity Team manager.

Laure co-manages Comgest's Global and EAFE (Global ex-US) strategies as well as the team’s segregated accounts. Before joining Comgest, she worked at BNP Paribas Equities & Derivatives in Paris and London, and prior to that worked in several roles within the US government.

Laure obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy from Stanford University (with Honours and Phi Beta Kappa) before graduating on the Dean's list with an MSc in Management from the HEC business school in France. She is also a CFA^® charterholder.

Heyang Ping joined Comgest in 2022 and is a Tokyo-based Analyst specialising in Japanese equities.

Prior to joining Comgest, she worked at Sparx Asset Management as a Japanese Equity Analyst supporting its Sustainable Investment Strategy. Heyang was previously a Japanese Equity Analyst, mainly covering the Transportation Sector, at Macquarie Group and started her career in 2011 at J.P. Morgan in Tokyo in Japanese Equity Research Sales.

Heyang holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management from Yokohama National University and a Master’s degree in Technology Management for Innovation from the University of Tokyo.

David Raper joined Comgest in 2002 and is an Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in Asia Pacific ex Japan equities as well as a member of the Comgest Group's Executive and Investment Committees.

David leads the firm’s Asian research efforts and co-leads Comgest’s Asia Pacific ex Japan and Asia ex Japan strategies. He is a key contributor to the Emerging Markets strategy. Prior to joining Comgest, he worked in Hong Kong for ING Barings covering Asian equities from 1999-2001.

David is a CFA^® charterholder and graduated from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a second major in Marketing.

Bhuvnesh Singh joined Comgest in 2016 and is a Singapore-based Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in Asian equities, including Indian equities.

Bhuvnesh co-leads the Asia ex Japan, Asia Pac ex Japan and India strategies. He visits company premises, compiles in-depth research reports and contributes to Comgest’s India, Asia, Emerging Markets and Global strategies. In 1999, Bhuvnesh started his career working at Credit Suisse where he was an Asia equity Analyst. He went on to join Barclays in 2011 as Head of India Research, co-managing the Indian equity business.

Bhuvnesh obtained a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Zak Smerczak joined Comgest in 2016 and is an Analyst and Portfolio Manager specialising in Global equities. He is also a member of the Comgest Group's Investment Committee.

Zak started his career in 2006 at Deloitte in London, initially in Assurance & Advisory Services before moving to Transaction Services where he was responsible for operational and financial due diligence. In 2011, Zak joined Mirabaud Asset Management where he worked as an Analyst covering global equities. In 2015, he moved to Polar Capital Holdings where he held the position of Analyst / Portfolio Manager for the firm’s global multi-asset income strategy.

Zak holds a Bachelor of Business Science Degree with Honours in Finance from the University of Cape Town. He is a CFA^® charterholder and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland since 2009.

Liudmila Strakodonskaya joined Comgest in 2024 and is an ESG Analyst covering the US.

Prior to joining Comgest, Liudmila worked as an ESG Analyst at AXA IM, where she developed thematic research, analysis and shareholder engagement on ESG topics with a specific focus on biodiversity and gender diversity. She represented AXA IM at the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfBF) and co-chaired the FfBF’s Impact Assessment Working Group with the goal of building and sharing knowledge on biodiversity metrics among investors. She was also actively involved in the creation of the Nature Action 100 initiative as a member of the launching investor group. Liudmila previously worked at Eleva Capital as an ESG/SRI Analyst in 2019 where she contributed to the development and implementation of the company’s ESG strategy. She began her career at EthiFinance in 2016 as a Sustainable Investment Analyst specialising in ESG research and reporting.

Liudmila holds a PhD in Economics with expertise in sustainable finance from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (France), for which she received a grant from FIR-UN PRI in 2016.

Justin Streeter joined Comgest in 2015 and is an Analyst and a Portfolio Manager specialising in US equities.

Justin co-leads the management of the US Equity strategy and contributes strongly to idea generation, researching US companies within a broad range of sectors. He previously worked at J.P. Morgan in San Francisco in 2013 as an M&A Healthcare Analyst and, prior to that, at J.P. Morgan’s London office in a similar role. Justin began his career with Macquarie Capital Partners (London) and Société Générale (Paris).

Justin graduated from Emlyon Business School (France) with a Master’s degree in Management and Corporate Finance. He is also a CFA^® charterholder.