Robeco’s quantitative investment strategies are based on the following beliefs:
Evidence-based research. Identifying factors that are rewarded with superior risk-adjusted performance. This includes extensive empirical testing over longer periods and in different markets.
Economic rationale. We want to move beyond statistical patterns and understand the economic drivers behind factors. Risks that are not adequately rewarded should be avoided.
Prudent investing. We manage easily explainable portfolios and prevent unnecessary trading costs and take an active approach to investor stewardship reflected in portfolio positioning.
Robeco's Sustainable Enhanced Indexing Equity strategy offers the advantages of passive investing while also targeting a superior sustainability profile. We overweight those index constituents that score highly on sustainability and underweight those that score poorly. As well as incorporating 50 years of academic insights, when ranking stocks or constructing the portfolio, we can also take into account stock characteristics proven to deliver superior returns. These characteristics are value, quality, momentum and analyst revisions.
The strategy can be customized, for example to target a high information ratio, a high sustainability profile or to maximize the sustainability profile while reducing the risk of underperformance. This customization can include the following elements:
The strategy is available for different investment regions: global developed and emerging markets.
Region |
Global developed |
Emerging markets |
Benchmark |
MSCI World Index |
MSCI Emerging Markets |
Information ratio target |
0.5 |
0.7 |
Tracking error (expected average) |
1.0% |
1.5% |
Number of stocks strategy |
≈ 750 |
≈ 450 |
Inception date |
November 2013 |
September 2019 |
Enhanced Indexing offers all the benefits of passive investing, while compensating for its many disadvantages.
Our strategy is managed by an experienced group of investment professionals within an organization that is fully committed to quantitative investing. The team consists of more than 40 portfolio managers and quantitative researchers, dedicated solely to quantitative investing, research and model development. The team closely cooperates with a dedicated sustainability research team, which focuses exclusively on ESG and provides the stock-specific sustainability information for the strategy.
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