** Kepler Cheuvreux downgrades French asset manager Amundi AMUN.PA to "hold" from "buy", seeing limited upside after a roughly 19% rally has lifted the stock to record high
** "Simply not enough upside left," it says, even as it slightly lifts its price target to 88.5 euros
** The broker praises the firm's "agility" in redeploying excess capital but cautions it must manage a likely full exit from its partnership with Italian bank UniCredit CRDI.MI
** It adds Amundi faces margin pressure in its retail division and dilution from a planned IPO of its Indian joint venture that will reduce its stake
** Among the 14 analysts covering Amundi, seven rate the stock "strong buy" or "buy" and seven rate "hold" - LSEG data
(Reporting by Clement Martinot)
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