Top 5: quality equity funds
Factor investing, an investment approach that involves targeting specific drivers of return across asset classes, is attracting increasing interest from investors. Factors such as value, size and momentum have a long history in the investment world and have been extensively empirically researched and documented in the academic literature. Although there are different variations for these factors as well, the factor quality is perhaps the most debated, both in academia and in practice.
La Financière de L’Echiquier : « La qualité est encore plus importante que la croissance »
La qualité, et pas la croissance, est le vrai facteur de différentation dans les marchés, déclare Adrien Bommelaer, gestionnaire de portefeuille chez le boutique asset manager français, La Financière de L’Echiquier (LFDE), dans un podcast.
‘Value and quality combination delivers outperformance’
The value factor has been disappointing investors for years. However, combining value with quality turns underperformance into stable outperformance, according to French boutique asset manager Seeyond AM. Seeyond has called the ‘new’ factor smart value.