François Mouté

Mr. François Mouté is a Portfolio Manager at Neuflize OBC Investissements SA and Chairman at Neuflize Private Assets SA. He began his career as a financial analyst at Crédit National and pursued it as a fund manager at Banque de Suez, before opening the Paris and Zurich offices of the American broker, Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette.
Later on he became a director at Bear Stearns in Geneva and New York and then at Schroders in Paris and Geneva.
He founded the Swiss investment management company Chester White & Co, of which he was Chairman for more than 15 years.
He joined the Neuflize group in 2000, in charge of the American investments of the group, before being appointed Chairman of Neuflize Private Assets in December 2002.
He is manager since inception of the Neuflize US Opportunités and Neuflize Ambition funds as well as managing large customized mandates.
He also manages the FLF Opportunities USA fund for Fortis Investments.
In its Fund Review of mid 2009, Citywire has ranked him the most consistent US equities manager in a group of 167 fund managers on a five year basis.
Mr. Mouté is a graduate of the HEC.