MATTHEW MCLENNAN, CFA
Portfolio Manager
& Head Of Global Value Team
Matt McLennan became a Portfolio Manager of the Amundi International Sicav in September 2008. He also co-manages the First Eagle Global, Overseas, and Overseas Variable Funds as well as leading the Global Value Team. He is also in charge of research on Gold & Gold Mining companies. Born in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, McLennan grew up in Queensland, Australia, and received his Bachelor of Commerce with first-class honors from the University of Queensland. He started his career with Queensland Investment Corporation in 1991, where he subsequently managed over one billion dollars in international equity portfolios. In 1994 McLennan joined Goldman Sachs in Sydney, where he worked for a year before moving to New York to join Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s (GSAM) U.S. Value Team as a Small Cap Research Analyst. In 1997 he was appointed Portfolio Manager and, at the end of 1998, Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Portfolio Manager of the U.S. Small Cap and U.S. Mid Cap Value strategies. In 2001 McLennan co-founded and was named Equity Chief Investment Officer of an investment strategy group for Goldman’s private client business and in 2002 was named a managing director of the firm. In 2003 he moved to London to become Co-Founder of GSAM’s Global Equity Partners and Senior Portfolio Manager of a focused global equity portfolio for the firm’s private wealth management clients. The portfolio uses a value-driven approach with an absolute return focus that emphasized low turnover, downside protection and risk aversion