Francois-Xavier is an Associate Portfolio Manager in the Multi-Asset Solutions team at BMO Global Asset Management and focuses on Portfolio Construction and Implementation and leveraging the risk infrastructure. He has 20 years of experience in the investment industry and before joining BMO GAM in March 2019, Francois-Xavier was a Systematic Portfolio Manager at CDPQ focussing on global-macro cross-asset strategies and cross-asset factor investing since 2014. From 2007 to 2014, he successively occupied role of systematic currency Portfolio Manager and Director Quantitative Research at CDPQ. Prior to joining CDPQ, he worked at Montrusco Bolton as Senior Quantitative Analyst working on portfolio construction for asset mix purposes from 2005 to 2007; and for TAL Global Asset Management from 2002 to 2005, as Quantitative Analyst and Currency Market Analyst. Francois-Xavier has a B.A. in Economics and a M.A. in Econometrics from the University of Montreal, and holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and CIM designations.