Next on the agenda for Candriam Investors Group, which used to be the asset management business of Dexia Group and is one of the fastest-growing asset managers in Europe this year: expansion in the US and Asia with help from its new parent New York Life Investment Management.

Candriam's chief executive, Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, was on September 16 made chairman of the international asset management business of the company's new parent, New York Life, which acquired Candriam in February 2014.