Philipp Alexander Dirkx

Oddo BHF AM is an active, long-term manager whose investment philosophy and process focus on European markets. They offer a unique range of effective investment solutions on all main asset classes: European equities, corporate bonds (investment grade and high yield), convertible bonds and asset allocation solutions. For equity investments, the firm combines fundamental, bottom-up stock selection with quantitative analysis, and a filtering process which identifies pricing anomalies. A team of in-house analysts establishes a fundamental view of the value of these companies and constructs a portfolio with high stock-specific risk. As a fixed-income manager, Oddo BHF AM specializes in investment-grade Euroland bonds and combines fundamental and quantitative analysis in a top-down selection process. Asset managers conduct in-house research and build model portfolios as well as a list of investment opportunities from which fund managers select securities while replicating the structure of the model portfolio.

FTI is an active manager with a long-term investment outlook which focuses on European equity and international fixed-income, especially corporate bonds and asset-backed securities. The firm follows a risk/return-oriented approach for equity investments. They allocate assets and select sectors following a top-down process based on macroeconomic, quantitative and technical research while the stockpicking process is bottom-up and based on in-house fundamental research. FTI follows a similar approach for fixed-income investments, especially in the case of corporate bonds, the selection of which is based on fundamental research. Corporate bond specialists work together with equity fund managers and analysts and participate in the company visitation program. The firm utilizes proprietary quantitative models to assist both equity and fixed-income portfolio managers.