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Thematic Investing: The Time to Invest in the Future Isn't Tomorrow, It's Today
Portfolio Construction
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.
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.
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.
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.
Water: An Indispensable Life-Sustaining Resource
A basic human need, essential for economic development. Learn more with our experts from Thematics AM.
Volatility 2020: How Model Portfolios Weathered the COVID-19 Selloff
Amid extreme market volatility model portfolios outperformed the index, according to the Latin American & US Offshore Advisors Portfolio Barometer.
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.
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.
Quantamentally Different
Machine learning allows portfolio managers to trawl through vast amounts of data, identify patterns and reveal original investment insights.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Were Advisors Prepared for the 2020 Market Meltdown?
Our Portfolio Barometer looks at how Latin American & US Offshore advisor portfolios were positioned going into 2020.
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.
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.
Risk Variation in Trend-Following Systems
This paper reviews how risk exposures are determined in trend-following systems to provide some clarity into these options.
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
Value Investing – Is It Different This Time?
A value investor usually requires a substantial price discount at the company’s intrinsic value. But the latter exceeds the mere accounting value of its tangible assets.
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.
Are We at the Dawn of a Return of the Value Equities?
After 12 years of a "growth" cycle, should we expect a cyclical change in favour of "value" equities in the medium term? DNCA's experts give us their analysis.
Q&A with Jens Peers, Mirova – ESG: making a positive impact
Jens Peers of Mirova discusses what investors should be aware of when investing in ESG-branded products plus more.
Cyclical Logics Warrant the Return of Optimism
Already of record duration, the sustainability of the expansion cycle that started in 2009 is hotly debated.
Q&A with James Beaumont – Alternatives
Natixis’s James Beaumont talks about the increasing demand for alternative investments and the role that both liquid and illiquid alternatives can play in client portfolios.
Eyeing Private Markets for Alpha and Diversifying Factors
Institutions are finding ways not available in public markets to fortify portfolios, including private equity, real asset debt and infrastructure.
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?
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.
Manager Point of View: Schrödinger’s CAPE?
Carmine De Franco, Head of Fundamental Research at Ossiam, explains why the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings Ratio (CAPE) is still a powerful tool for investors.
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?
Four Perspectives on Global Equity
Compelling alternatives await for those willing to actively diversify their equity allocations.
From the Summit: Shaping the Future of Active Management
Renowned portfolio managers discuss how active managers can differentiate themselves from passive competitors – and how they can meet clients’ new demands.