Mediafin, founded in November 2004, acts as a trusted advisor to a number of organisations (industrial groups, sovereign and financial institutions, family holding companies), providing analyses and recommendations for their investment strategies.While its client list is strictly private and confidential, Mediafin neither does nor seeks to do business with short term financial investors.Its founder and managing partner Edouard Tétreau is a financial analyst with a long-term, contrarian approach: his key calls included the March 2000 internet bubble crash (Credit Lyonnais Securities Research Note: 'Take your e-profits before a potential e-crash', 16th March 2000), and the end of the Messier era at Vivendi Universal (Credit Lyonnais Securities Research Note: 'Mercury Rising', 22nd March 2002).Based in Paris, France, Mediafin has developed partnerships to serve its clients' interests in key markets beyond Europe, notably in North America, the Middle East and Asia. Edouard Tétreau currently teaches at French leading business school HEC (course 'Managing in times of financial crises'). He is a trustee of Washington-based think tank CED - Committee for Economic Development.