Dominique Gagnol

HSBC GAM-France is an active, long-term manager which follows a growth-oriented investment approach to invest globally in equity and debt across market-caps and sectors. The firm’s approach to portfolio management is rigorous and consistent and integrates risk management principles at each stage of the process. Their philosophy emphasizes dynamic asset allocation and combines top-down and bottom-up approaches. Sector or style allocation is top-down and focused on business cycle expectations, global sector trends, regional sector fundamentals and relative valuation. Stock selection is bottom-up and based on fundamental analysis focused on earnings growth as influenced by industry trends, market leadership, management effectiveness and sensitivity to economic trends.

HSBC-PWM is an active, benchmark-insensitive investor who manages portfolios invested equity, fixed-income and money-market instruments with a focus on French and European equity. Their investment approach emphasizes strong convictions and bottom-up security selection, both in direct management and in traditional and alternative multi-management. In terms of equity investments, the firm has a medium- to long-term investment outlook and bases investment decisions on fundamental research. They aim to assess their potential investees' business plans, management teams and financial data. Their research process also includes the use of quantitative models. As a fixed-income investor HSBC-PWM follows a top-down approach based on macroeconomic research including core economic and financial analysis of the Euro-zone fixed-rate, variable-rate, credit and convertible bond markets. The firm's core area of expertise is multi-managed product. Their fund selection process is based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and on criteria such as geographical region within an asset class, management style and fund manager assessment. The multi-management process incorporates strategic asset allocation, manager selection, portfolio construction in accordance with fund objectives and constant monitoring supported by proprietary quantitative models.