
Carmignac Patrimoine gained +8.76% in the second quarter of 2020, taking its full-year return to +1.99%. Our equity portfolio accounted for +3.60% of the quarterly total, while our bond portfolio reduced our overall performance by -1.61%.1
The handling of the Covid-19 pandemic triggered the greatest shock to growth ever recorded. After contracting by nearly 16% in the first quarter, the global economy appears to be recovering – thanks to life support for consumer spending.

The speed, scope and form of the authorities’ response to the emergency were truly unprecedented. Central banks and governments took concerted action to ensure that enough money would continue to flow to economic agents – businesses and households – to keep them going and to regulate the debt financing of economic activity via the financial markets and banking system.
The rally in financial assets currently under way flies in the face of what are still patchy economic fundamentals and a most uncertain outlook.
Our asset allocation gave us the agility we needed to get through the period, and we feel reasonably upbeat as we enter the second half of the year.
The crisis we are experiencing is accelerating a number of major underlying trends: digital transformation, with all the disruptions it may entail; an increasingly decarbonized economy, with non-financial criteria forming an integral part of how businesses are analysed; and perhaps for the first time, a big political step forward in Europe.
Those meaningful advances have driven our core equity allocation themes, from tech stocks selected from around the world – in the US, Europe and China – to healthcare stocks. Just when it looked like central banks had run out of ammunition, they pivoted swiftly to a degree of cooperation with governments that was previously unheard-of, or even taboo. This barely disguised monetisation of debt has given gold an enduring presence in our equity portfolio and enabled us to balance our risks.
The corporate credit market was hit with a solvency shock – amplified by a liquidity shock – that impacted our performance. In response, we began in March to seize on emerging opportunities to strengthen our allocation, building up a carry portfolio we believe will boost our returns in the next few quarters. We have increased that allocation with three basic themes in mind: quality issuers hurt by unfair spreads since the coronavirus struck, subordinated bank bonds, and those segments of the tourism industry that find themselves at the epicentre of the pandemic. We financed that larger allocation by rebalancing our holdings of sovereign bonds, which have become less attractive.
Carmignac Patrimoine: A Fine Balance of Opposing Forces

Our asset allocation thus reflects a fairly constructive take on market trends in the months to come. The outlook for the virus shows signs of improving, monetary and fiscal policies are providing extraordinary support for the economy and investors are still basically playing it safe.
We combine an equity portfolio heavily invested in secular growth companies (described in our Carmignac Investissement report), an allocation to gold stocks, coupled with a yield-oriented fixed-income portfolio centred on carefully chosen names whose solvency risk has been amply assessed.
Our US dollar currency risk is adequately hedged.
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| Carmignac Patrimoine | 3.9 | 0.1 | -11.3 | 10.5 | 12.4 | -0.9 | -9.4 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 13.0 |
| Indicateur de référence | 8.1 | 1.5 | -0.1 | 18.2 | 5.2 | 13.3 | -10.3 | 7.7 | 11.4 | 2.1 |
| Carmignac Patrimoine | + 9.0 % | + 3.6 % | + 2.5 % |
| Indicateur de référence | + 6.0 % | + 5.5 % | + 5.4 % |
Source : Carmignac au 31 oct. 2025.
Les performances et valeurs passées ne préjugent pas des performances et valeurs futures. Les performances sont nettes de tout frais à l’exception des éventuels frais d’entrée et de sortie et sont obtenues après déduction des frais et taxes applicables à un client de détail moyen ayant la qualité de personne physique résident belge. Lorsque la devise diffère de la vôtre, un risque de change existe pouvant entraîner une diminution de la valeur. La devise de référence du fonds/compartiment est EUR.
Indicateur de référence: 40% MSCI AC World NR index + 40% ICE BofA Global Government index + 20% €STR Capitalized index. Rebalancé trimestriellement.