
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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*Scala di Rischio del KID (documento contenente le informazioni chiave). Il rischio 1 non significa che l'investimento sia privo di rischio. Questo indicatore può evolvere nel tempo. **Il Regolamento SFDR (Regolamento sull’informativa di sostenibilità dei mercati finanziari) 2019/2088 è un regolamento europeo che impone agli asset manager di classificare i propri fondi in tre categorie: Articolo 8: fondi che promuovono le caratteristiche ambientali e sociali, Articolo 9 che perseguono l'investimento sostenibile con obiettivi misurabili o Articolo 6 che non hanno necessariamente un obiettivo di sostenibilità. Per ulteriori informazioni consultare: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2088/oj?locale=it. Per le informazioni relative alla sostenibilità ai sensi del Regolamento SFDR si prega di prendere visione del prospetto del oppure fondi delle pagine del sito web di Carmignac dedicate alla sostenibilità fondo https://www.carmignac.it/it_IT/i-nostri-fondi).
| Carmignac Patrimoine | 3.9 | 0.1 | -11.3 | 10.5 | 12.4 | -0.9 | -9.4 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 13.0 |
| Indice di riferimento | 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 % |
| Indice di riferimento | + 6.0 % | + 5.5 % | + 5.4 % |
Fonte: Carmignac al 31 ott 2025.
Le performance passate non sono un'indicazione delle performance future. Le performance sono calcolate al netto delle spese (escluse eventuali commissioni di ingresso applicate dal distributore)
Indice di riferimento: 40% MSCI AC World NR index + 40% ICE BofA Global Government index + 20% €STR Capitalized index. Indice ribilanciato trimestralmente.