She was most recently responsible for the client portfolio managers’ teams for fixed income at Aviva Investors.
Girault’s career has also involved roles at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Fidelity Investments, and La Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild, in Paris and London.
She will be based with the team in the London office, which has also added Oliver Cooper as associate director, Emea business development, and Fajr Al Tamimi, marketing associate, Emea business development.
Her responsibilities will focus on growing RBC GAM's institutional asset management business in the Emea region, report to Paul Williams, head of Emea, RBC GAM in the UK.
This recruitment, with the further addition of ten global equity specialists, brings the total number of investment people and other staff based in London to 45.
