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Amundi second-quarter profit misses expectations, shares fall
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on July 29, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on July 29, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Amundi's Q2 profit missed expectations, causing shares to drop 6%. Lower net management fees and currency impacts affected margins.
By Mathieu Rosemain and Bertrand De Meyer
PARIS (Reuters) -Asset manager Amundi reported weaker-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as margins came under pressure from lower net management fees partly due to a depreciation in the U.S. dollar, sending its shares down nearly 6% in early trading.
Adjusted net income over the April-to-June period fell 4.5% from a year earlier to 334 million euros ($386 million), below the 345 million euros expected on average by analysts polled by the company.
Net revenue fell 1% to 790 million euros, also below expectations.
Shares in Europe’s largest asset manager, which is controlled by French bank Credit Agricole, fell nearly 6% at market open and were down 4.3% by 0749 GMT.
Analysts at Goldman Sachs said Amundi’s margins were hit by a decrease in net management fees, due to a weaker U.S. dollar, a greater share of institutional clients who pay lower fees, and inflows into lower-margin products like passive and fixed income funds.
Net inflows in the second quarter were 20.4 billion euros ($23.65 billion), bringing total assets under management to a new record of 2.27 trillion euros.
Amundi said institutional investors and third-party distributors poured money into both passive and active strategies, especially those focused on European markets, as clients seek to rebalance the allocations of their assets.
"What we saw a lot of during the first half of the year was, first and foremost, many European clients repatriating and diversifying their allocations," CEO Valerie Baudson told reporters on a call.
"In particular, they repatriated a lot of money that had been invested outside Europe back to Europe. We also saw a lot of interest from American and Asian clients," she said.
She added that she expected minimal impact on European economic growth from the framework trade agreement struck between the United States and the European Union.
($1 = 0.8625 euros)
(Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain and Bertrand de Meyer; Editing by Jan Harvey and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
Amundi's adjusted net income for the April-to-June period fell 4.5% from a year earlier to 334 million euros, which was below the expected 345 million euros.
Shares in Amundi fell nearly 6% at market open and were down 4.3% by 0749 GMT following the announcement of weaker-than-expected profits.
Amundi's profit margins were affected by lower net management fees due to a weaker U.S. dollar, a higher share of institutional clients, and inflows into lower-fee strategies.
Amundi reported net inflows of 20.4 billion euros in the second quarter, bringing total assets under management to a record 2.27 trillion euros.
Amundi noted that many European clients were repatriating and diversifying their allocations, with significant interest from American and Asian clients as well.
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