6 Jean-François de Clermont-Tonnerre

Jean-François de Clermont-Tonnerre
Jean-Francois de Clermont-Tonnerre is definitely an accomplished entrepreneur and philanthropist
having a 25 years of profitable active investment practical experience. He is the owner of AUM Asset
Management, among the largest fund management firms based in Malta. Jean-Francois also advises the
board of Storm Mountain Corp and is on a many other corporate boards, from insurance coverage and
asset management to IT and Tech. Jean-Francois is most passionate regarding the ‘Fondation Jean-
Francois and Marie-Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre’ which he co-founded with his wife to market access to
education and culture for young men and women from disadvantaged backgrounds. Get a lot more
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Jean-Francois is a devoted philanthropist and in 2009 he realised a dream when he and his wife Marie-
Laure created their Belgian based foundation. It was set up to fund educational and artistic scholarships
to schools and universities. In unique it provides grants to young folks from creating nations to enable
them to get into French-speaking higher education establishments with all the aim of permitting them
to apply their education in their very own countries. The Foundation also supports a range of artistic and
cultural projects that further its key aim. Jean-Francois is proud to serve as a board member.
Jean-Francois also has an enviable entrepreneurial pedigree in asset management. He acquired his
existing enterprise, AUM Asset Management, in 2015. In much less than two years, he has taken the
firm from an inactive shell to a USD400m asset manager. The group focuses on total return techniques,
blending tangible assets with traditional and alternative fund management. It has attracted a variety of
prestigious consumers which includes institutions and family members offices.
Jean-Francois has founded numerous innovative monetary corporations. In 2007 He launched Abrax
Amaerus, a top-performing merger arbitrage hedge fund with constant best quartile returns. In 2010 he

co-founded Storm Mountain Corp, a forward pondering Canadian true estate company developing
important projects in British Colombia. In 2013 he founded 1788 Capital a USD500m Swiss, conviction
driven, asset manager and multi family office. He has either served around the board or divested his
holdings in all his earlier enterprises to focus on AUM Asset Management.
Earlier in his profession Jean-Francois was a vice-president at Banque Sarasin and cie S.A. In Geneva,
Basel and London. He was responsible for on-shore and off-shore investment management and for
Luxembourg primarily based life insurance coverage solutions. He was also a member of Centralised
Asset Management for Banque Edouard Continuous (Sandoz family members Group). Jean-Francois
played a function in implementing investable hedge fund indexes with HFR, Hedge Fund Research
Chicago. He also acted as consultant for the 2002 sessions in the OECD on Hedge Fund Risks.
Jean-Francois holds a master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the E.P.F.L (Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne in conjunction with HEC Lausanne) and an undergraduate degree from GIIS,
(Graduate Institute of International Research), University of Geneva with a specialisation in International
Economics. He served as an officer inside the 1er Regiment d’Infanterie de Marine (French Special
Forces) and saw active duty in crises in Central Africa and Yugoslavia.