🔺 Joachim Savigny, the Madonna of French wealth advisers
❎ Nicolas Cheron, the Nostradamus of charts
🔷 Guillaume Simonin, the TV science-show presenter of savings
🟡 Oussama Ammar, the David Copperfield of the Caymans
❤️ Benjamin Charles, of Zero Bullshit, right here (it’s a trap)
If you were an animal, you’d be…
🔺 A chameleon, to change colour as often as your mind
❎ A cat, because it’s soft and it doesn’t give anyone grief
🔷 A unicorn, with a nice big hard horn
🟡 A bull, like the Wall Street one
Your favourite technical analysis is…
❎ Moving average convergence/divergence
🔷 A good old home-made ichimoku kinkō hyō
🟡 Couldn’t give a toss, I go all in on gut feeling
🔺 A dead cat bounce
If you could pick the economy minister, it would be…
🟡 Croesus
🔺 Xavier Niel, the French telecoms billionaire behind Station F
🔷 Adam Neumann
❎ Nebuchadnezzar
Your favourite entrepreneurs are…
❎ Émile-Maurice Hermès and Geoffroy Guichard (founder of the French Casino supermarket chain), who started from nothing and gave rise to everything.
🟡 Dan Bilzerian and Yomi Denzel, the French dropshipping YouTuber, real men who smell nice
🔺 Bernard Arnault and François-Henri Pinault (LVMH and Kering), the GOATs in suits
🔷 Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, to ze moon
Who should host the next VivaTech, Paris’s big tech show?
🔺 Emmanuel Macron, because he’s the boss
🟡 Bill Gates, to give a lesson on money, the real stuff
❎ Philippe Risoli, who hosted the French Price Is Right, so funding rounds finally come at the right price
🔷 Lagaf’, the French TV comic, since he’s making a comeback. And for once we’d stop taking ourselves seriously
For your holidays, you’d rather go to…
🔺 The Cher, deepest rural France, with Eric Larchevêque, the Ledger co-founder
🟡 The ionosphere, with Richard Branson
❎ Tuscany, with Laurent Saint-Martin (come on, you know, he was the economy minister. Well, the one before)
🔷 Dubai, with the guy from Mistral, the French AI startup. No, not the one who never smiles, the other one. No, the other one. Oh, sod it.
For your fund, you’d pick the name…
🔺 Yellow Ventures
🟡 ETF DOSH MAX+
❎ AMT (Advanced Multimedia & Telematics)
🔷 Innovation 3000 ESG GREEN (SRI Human Capital)
To you, the AMF, France’s financial markets regulator, is…
🟡 Never heard of it
🔺 A big fat pain in the arse
🔷 Something the guy from Vaulplane vaguely mentioned
❎ Absolutely essential to sound regulation, protecting investors’ interests while giving all the parties to a deal a healthy, clear framework, which managers must adapt to
Your favourite licence is…
🟡 A credit institution licence, from the ACPR, France’s banking supervisor
❎ Portfolio management company, from the COB, the AMF’s long-defunct predecessor
🔺 PSAN, France’s crypto registration, from the AMF
🔷 Freestyle
Your favourite media outlet is…
🟡 Forbes
❎ Les Echos, France’s business daily
🔷 Maddyness
🔺 mind Fintech, the French fintech trade outlet
❤️ Zero Bullshit
Your favourite award is…
🟡 30 Under 30, with a post explaining how totally amazed you are when you spent 3 hours on your application
❎ The Top d’Or from Gestion de Fortune, the French wealth-management magazine, because it looks classy when you turn up at Patrimonia, the wealth advisers’ trade fair
🔷 The Top Voice badge from LinkedIn, to show off in the comments.
🔺 That French young-leaders thing, the Choiseul whatsit. Come ooon, you know…