Luc Varenne

Oddo BHF AM is an active, long-term manager that offers 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. The firm invests globally in a variety of asset classes including equity, fixed-income, convertible bonds, money market instruments, alternative assets and private equity. They have special expertise in mid-caps, theme investing, and quantitative equity management and manage a range of strategies including money market, hedge, balanced, active asset allocation, structured products and multimanager. Oddo BHF AM follows a bottom-up approach based on in-house fundamental research to select stocks and exploit market inefficiencies. Their equity and fixed-income teams operate in close relationship, using a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis.

AAIS is an active, conviction-driven manager which performs fundamental analysis, aiming to identify portfolio value, structural and cyclical themes, investment opportunities and selection of securities and mutual funds. The firm collaborates with Banque Neuflize OBC and ABN AMRO Advisors to select mutual funds and provide consulting services. Their analytical teams perform qualitative studies to evaluate mutual funds and management companies. AAIS’s multi-management revolves around two activities: Multi-asset portfolio management combines funds of funds, funds of mandates and profiled funds designed for private and institutional clients in France, Netherlands and worldwide; and Alternative investment offers a range of absolute performance oriented solutions (non-benchmarked), alternative solution (Hedge Funds and Private Equity) as well as risk budget-constrained solutions.

NOAM engages in both active and passive investing and manages a wide range of funds across assets classes, regions, sectors and strategies. They manage three main types of funds: pure funds, which focus on a specific asset class or geographic region and use local market indices as performance benchmarks, diversified funds based on a global asset management model, and structured funds, whose objectives are predetermined by clients. Their individual portfolio managers, who specialize in particular geographical areas such as the U.S., Europe, or Asia are responsible for security selection; however, they are assisted by the geographically located analysts of ABN AMRO's global network. Strategic asset allocation is the result of the anticipation by portfolio managers of markets evolutions together with the recommendations of the firm's investment committee. The firm uses indices and quantitative research to position investments and to measure and set targets for initial and on going investments.