In this episode, Mawer IM discusses the defense industry's evolution with equity analyst Joshua Samuel. He highlights the historical underinvestment in European defense, the recent increase in defense spending, particularly Germany's program, and the strategic importance of land systems.

U.S. equities experienced challenging backdrop in the first quarter of 2025 on the back of fears of an economic slowdown following the announcement of substantial tariff increases by the Trump administration.

In this episode, portfolio manager at Mawer Investment Management, Peter Lampert discusses international equities and the impact of tariffs on portfolio management.

Chris Wallis, CEO/CIO of Vaughan Nelson, discusses Trump’s tariffs and recent policy changes, along with the market volatility with Louise Watson.

Broad factor groups help explain long-term returns and, indeed, form the framework for quantitative stock selection models. In the fourth of this new series on Quant Investing Matthias Hanauer, Quant Researcher at Robeco, talks more about the perfect quant stock.

Unpacking one of our key mental models around investing and managing risk.

Using the past 150 years for illustration, Aziz Hamzaogullari, CFA, Founder, CIO, and Portfolio Manager, Growth Equity Strategies at Loomis, Sayles & Company, explains why the risk of downside market volatility is inevitable, frequent, and unpredictable.

Hollie Briggs and the Loomis Sayles Growth Equity Strategies Team are not overly concerned by the current market volatility. In fact, they see it as potentially an exciting opportunity to buy high-quality companies at discounted prices, which are then less risky than they were previously.

How did S&P DJI’s indices perform in Q1? Why is Low Volatility attracting interest, and what else is navigating the trade trends successfully?

Our speaker is Myron Scholes who is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Myron won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking work in Options Theory. I want to find out why uncertainty is core to both investing and finance theory.

In this new episode of Quant Street, Robeco Portfolio Manager Vania Sulman explains how the tracking error of an Active Quant approach is managed over the long term, and explains the process of overweights and underweights versus the benchmark. She also talks about how Active Quant differs from an enhanced-indexing approach…

Mawer's Global Equity Co-Manager, Manar Hassan-Agha, examines how tariff policies have created uncertainty for businesses, particularly impacting capital deployment decisions and supply chains. Manar explains how a focus on asset-light, service-oriented businesses with recurring revenue provides resilience during…

Dan Davidowitz, Co-Portfolio Manager of the Polen Focus Growth strategy, sits down with Rusty Vanneman, host of Orion's ''Weighing the Risks'' podcast, to discuss a wide range of investment topics and how advisors and investors can better navigate today's complex financial landscape.

IT is still a top spending priority for companies across most sectors, setting up a positive outlook for disruptive technology stocks in 2025, as Derek Glynn, Associate Portfolio Manager BNP Paribas AM, explains in this short video.

In today’s environment, one could take on less risk for the same expected return, says Vaguard's Head of Advice Methodology.

In this piece we explore the core considerations of factor investing and how quantitative and dynamic multi-factor frameworks can help investors navigate changing market environments.

LSEG’s macroeconomic experts discuss divergence and dispersion—where impact has been most significant, and trends being seen today.

We believe positive differences between emerging and developed markets present investors with opportunities.

The recent increase in volatility has been fueled, notably by the tariff wars. Consequences are firstly inflationary pressures.

Jeremy Siegel, the Russell E. Palmer Professor Emeritus of Finance at Wharton and Robert Shiller, the Sterling Professor of Economics Emeritus at Yale University, give a keynote presentation on the state of the economy and the evolution of markets at the the 2024 Frontiers in Quantitative Finance Conference. Their…