Axel Cron

HSBC-GAM-DE is an active manager which specializes in German mid-caps as well as in European and eastern emerging markets equity. In terms of fixed-income, they focus on European government bonds and global bonds. They also invest in money-market instruments. They rely on the expertise of their sister companies for investments in other regions and asset classes. The firm's investment approach blends top-down and bottom-up processes based on proprietary fundamental research conducted by their global research teams. They aim to identify sectors and companies with strong market positions, management and technical expertise, which have the potential to outperform the global market. Investment decisions are team-based.

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.