Cristina Brízido

CGDA is an active manager which utilizes a top-down approach based on in-house fundamental research to invest globally in debt and equity across sectors and market-caps. Their geographic focus is on Portugal.

GNB FIM is an active, research-oriented manager which follows a combined top-down and bottom-up investment methodology to construct geographically diversified portfolios with a focus on developed markets. The firm performs analysis of economic growth projections by region, evaluating countries' growth patterns, interest rates and currency forecasts. This analysis is used to forecast potential returns over a one-year period for different asset classes. GNB FIM makes sectoral allocation of equity and bond investments based on macro- and microeconomic conditions. The firm selects suitable companies for investment following a bottom-up approach, analyzing a company's turnover profile, forecast of operational margins and operational leverage as well as the financing structure and financial leverage. For equity investments, they also check if the current price is appropriate to the company's growth pattern and implicit risk, using in-house models to determine dividend discount and the price-to-earnings ratio.