Didier Bouvignies will join LCF Rothschild Asset Manangement replacing the departing Jean-Charles Mériaux as head of European and French equities.

After eight years at the French fund management house, Mériaux is leaving to start his own private client asset management vehicle. Bouvignies, who will sit on the management board when he starts at the end of September, joins from Victoire Asset Management. At Victoire he was also a board director and responsible for its team of fund managers. Under his direction Victoire won a series of French awards for its fund management performance.