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Portfolio Construction
Volatility Investing by Seeyond : introduction to our philosophy
Simon Aninat, portfolio manager and Volatility specialist, presents Seeyond’s vision on this unique asset class.
- November 26, 2020
Credit Check: The Full Discretion Approach to Credit Selection
Loomis Sayles fixed income managers explain how they look to capitalize on persistent inefficiencies and drive excess return potential in corporate credit.
Loomis Sayles: Growth Equity Strategies with Aziz Hamzaogullari
Aziz Hamzaogullari, CIO, and founder of the Growth Equity Strategies Team, gives an investment update, discusses risks and opportunities, the integration of ESG and more.
- November 19, 2020
- Aziz V. Hamzaogullari
Why Millennials Should Own Value Stocks
Millennial investors, more than any other demographic, may be best positioned to benefit from at least some value exposure.
- November 12, 2020
A Decade of Europe Minimum Volatility Investing at Seeyond
With 10 years of investing under his belt, Seeyond’s Nicolas Just looks at what the future holds for this investment approach.
- November 2, 2020
- Nicolas Just
Where Are the Bankruptcies?
Despite record high unemployment during the pandemic, individual bankruptcy filings have fallen. What are the implications for portfolios?
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics: An Exponential Growth
A multi-decade growth theme, expected to become ubiquitous in our day to day lives. Learn more with our experts from Thematics AM.
- September 4, 2020
Water: An Indispensable Life-Sustaining Resource
A basic human need, essential for economic development. Learn more with our experts from Thematics AM.
- September 3, 2020
Thematics Insights: Is Cash an Endangered Species?
Are we moving towards a cashless society? Since the beginning of the health crisis, merchants have actually quite often refused our bank notes and coins.
- August 11, 2020
Investing Across Fixed Income with Loomis Sayles
Navigating bond markets in not easy. With Loomis Sayles, investors gain access to renowned research and portfolio management capabilities.
- June 25, 2020
Mobilising The Machine
The automation and technological improvements wrought by AI and Robotics are changing the way we live, interact and do business.
The Man Behind The Machine
The winning ‘quants’ will not just leverage Artificial Intelligence but employ innovative techniques that no other human nor machine is doing.
Transformational Technology
Technology is revolutionising sometimes decades-old processes and enabling teams to do more with less.
Perspective In Patterns
ESG and machine learning is the perfect match. It is self-taught, so it is able to highlight evolutionary patterns without human intervention.
AI: Don’t Believe the Hype
Will machines eventually make decisions more effectively than human beings can today? A leading expert on AI argues that investors need to see beyond the hype.
AI and Active Quant Investing
Many ‘quant’ approaches are looking for advanced techniques and data to generate additional investment performance, but only a select few will succeed.
- June 16, 2020
- Emmanuel Bourdeix
Loomis Sayles: An update on some portfolio changes in the growth equity strategies
Aziz Hamzaogullari, CIO, and founder of the Growth Equity Strategies team, talks to Darren Pilbeam about the recent changes he has made to his portfolios.
- May 28, 2020
Risk Returns in a Multi-Asset Portfolio Construction
The integration of global markets and the algorithmic trading has impacted market structure. How can investors adapt their strategies to this new reality
- May 27, 2020
COVID-19: Perspectives On The Road To Recovery
Portfolio managers from DNCA, Harris Associates, Loomis Sayles, Mirova, Ostrum, Seeyond and Thematics AM provide their perspectives on the road to recovery.
- May 14, 2020
Safety: Everywhere, All The Time
Security solutions are everywhere in our daily routine, an ever-growing demand for greater safety and security in all aspect of our lives. Learn more with our experts from Thematics AM.
- May 12, 2020
Portfolio Defense: Value, Growth, or Neither?
Analysis of 20-year returns suggests that sector diversification may be a more effective defensive strategy than favoring growth or value equity styles.
AlphaSimplex: Volatility is here to stay
Kathryn Kaminski, Chief Research Strategist at AlphaSimplex, talks with Natixis’s Esty Dwek about managing volatility today.
- May 11, 2020
Diversification Matters: Achieving Better Balance
Spreading your investments across asset classes can help to balance risk and return potential, and avoid surprises when market corrections occur.
The safety market: an opportunity for investors
Within the current context of a global pandemic, safety considerations have become all the more obvious, impacting the way we think, interact and live our daily lives.
- May 7, 2020
Thematics Insights: Why Are Subscriptions So Attractive?
Both consumers and businesses are subscribing more and more to products and services. This Insight shines the light on some of the long term factors that are driving the broad adoption of subscription based models across a nice mix of industries.
- May 5, 2020
Bond Basics: How Interest Rates Affect Bond Yields
Introduction to bond investing, fixed income funds, and how changing interest rates affect prices and yields.
Global Barometer: How Advisor Portfolios Were Positioned Heading into 2020
See how moderate portfolios varied by geographic region at the end of 2019 in the Natixis Investment Managers Global Portfolio Barometer.
- April 24, 2020
- Natixis Investment Institute
Fighting the Fear Gauge
Christiaan Kraan, Managing Director at Seeyond, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, explains how volatility strategies can be both an investable and liquid asset class and why they are one of a few true diversification opportunities left in the world today.
- April 23, 2020
- Christiaan Kraan
Three Reasons to Stay Invested in Volatile Times
Why panic selling during unsettling times may be one of the worst things long-term investors could do is analyzed over three decades.
Intelligence Inside
Karen Kharmandarian, co-manager for the Thematics AI & Robotics strategy, explains why AI and robotics will continue to influence all aspects of our lives.
- March 25, 2020
Safety in Numbers
Frederic Dupraz, lead manager of the Thematics Safety strategy, explains why the response to emerging threats to our safety create investment opportunities.
- March 24, 2020
Subscription Economy: The Future of Consumption
With the right supporting demographic, technological and sustainability drivers in place, the subscription economy is poised to see further accelerating growth
- February 12, 2020
Manager Point of View: Putting risk first
Nicolas Just, Deputy CEO and CIO at Seeyond, explains why ‘low-vol’ equity strategies, can outperform the market and what it can bring to investors.
- January 21, 2020
- Nicolas Just
So far, so good.
After 2019, the year of Central Banks, comes 2020, the year of … Profits? Investors would certainly dream of it, but nothing is for certain.
- January 10, 2020
- Stephanie Bigou
Be Selective, Diversify
Equity valuations appear expensive. It doesn’t necessarily mean that there are no more investment opportunities in the markets.
- November 9, 2019
- Stephanie Bigou
Leave Mother Nature Alone
On earth as in markets, humans have been trying to domesticate mother nature for their own benefit. But Nature always takes back its place.
- September 30, 2019
Thematics – A True Source of Diversification?
In the future, will everyone be investing in megatrends? And who benefits from shifts in demographic, innovation, globalisation and scarcity?
- September 11, 2019
Alternatives – Will They Become a Future Core Allocation?
Once considered an exotic delicacy, we’re seeing investors increasingly embracing alternative investments.
Manager Point of View: Clear opportunities
Simon Gottelier, co-manager for the Thematics Water strategy, explores how some companies are addressing global imbalances in water supply and demand.
- August 9, 2019
Seeyond’s High Dividend Minimum Volatility: What does it bring to the table?
What does this strategy bring to the investors’ allocation? And what weight should be added to a typical allocation?
- July 10, 2019
Short Is the New Long: Managing Risk and Diversification
Portfolio Manager Kathryn Kaminski on how trend-following strategies can help manage risk and diversification by going long and short on various assets.
- May 23, 2019