Thomas Ayache

Rothschild & Co. AM is a global, multi-specialist, conviction-based, long-term manager who offers bespoke investment management and advisory services aiming to outperform the indexes with a controlled level of risk. Their range of single and multi-asset class solutions includes equity, fixed income and commodities. They seek to preserve capital through diversification across strategies and by carefully selecting the best fund managers.

Rothschild HDF Investment Solutions is an active manager which offers a diversified fund of funds range across alternative investment strategies and an equity fund range across long/only and absolute return strategies. The firm has thematically diversified funds including absolute return funds, alternative multi-strategy funds, funds of one (single manager), hybrid or thematic funds. They perform regular in-house fundamental research, including interviews with company managers, aiming to understand their investment objectives and focusing on risk, constraints and liabilities. They employ top-down and bottom-up approaches, open-architecture asset allocation and quantitative modeling and incorporate risk management into every step of the investment process.

Rothschild & Cie Gestion utilizes active, passive and multi-manager strategies to invest across geographic regions in a range of instruments including equities, fixed-income, alternatives, currency and convertibles. The firm utilizes a blended, unbiased style to manage equities. Their structured investment process combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to allocate sectors and geographies and to select stocks, respectively. They perform fundamental qualitative analysis and focus on managing European values through their mutual fund range and US large-caps. Rothschild & Cie Gestion's index (passive) management seeks to replicate the performance of a market index and is based on pure replication (buying all the securities that comprise the index and their respective weightings) and synthetic replication (constructing a portfolio of money market instruments (certificates of deposit, treasury , pensions against Treasury bills). Meanwhile, the fund buys (or sells) futures contracts on the index to replicate. Multi-management is based on a quantitative and qualitative selection of underlying funds to control risk and maximize performance through diversification. A dedicated team selects funds, manages funds of funds and monitors managers.