Axa IM eager to refocus on Asia strategy

The chief executive of Axa Investment Managers, Dominique Carrel-Billiard, put Asia at the heart of the firm's global growth plans at a media briefing in Paris this Wednesday. He outlined two specific initiatives on the manufacturing side of the business. Firstly its Framlington equities platform will hire a two-person investment team in Hong Kong and complement that with an undetermined number of relocations from the firm’s London office. Secondly, the firm plans to relaunch th…