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Smart Beta Strategies

In a context of more frequent equity market shocks and higher volatility, investors are looking for new solutions providing robust performance and controlled - even exploited - risks.

In order to answer these new needs, Amundi offers a complete range of Smart Beta solutions, managed by a team of dedicated experts.

Smart Beta by Amundi : Our philosophy

A risk-oriented allocation

Asset allocation is changing, particularly due to exogenous shocks. The regulatory environment also leads to narrow capital requirement - and therefore the involved risks - without deteriorating performance.

Investors are thus increasingly wishing to conceive their allocation in terms of risks, rather than by country or sector.

To properly manage multi-dimensional risks, only a scientific and disciplined portfolio construction process can reduce the correlations and improve the diversification.

Expert Talk

At Amundi, we are convinced that it is necessary to focus on risk management to generate a strong performance over the long term.

Bruno Taillardat , Global head of Smart Beta & Factor Investing, Amundi

A holistic approach of Smart Beta

The question is no longer why Smart Beta, but how to embrace it. Amundi mobilized the best of its resources (management teams, Research, Analysts, etc.) to identify, define and accompany the implementation of the Smart Beta strategy that fits the most the objectives and constraints of each investor.

Amundi’s approach of Smart Beta is holistic: we have a wide range of solutions available both in active and passive management. They aim either to capture rewarded risk premia in order to generate performance - « Factor Investing » solutions - or to limit the exposure to unrewarded risks - « Risk Efficient Solutions ».

Building tailor-made Smart Beta

In addition to open-ended funds, we can also provide investors with added-value services, to analyze their portfolios identify factor or risk biases that may affect negatively their performance. They can also benefit from our ability to build customized Smart Beta investment solutions, taking into account additional constraints such as ESG, Low Carbon, exclusions in terms of sectors or countries.

Working with recognized partners

A strategic partnership with ERI Scientific Beta

Since 2014, Amundi and the Edhec Risk Institute Sci Beta have partnered to combine ERI Scientific Beta’s expertise in the design of smart beta indices and Amundi’s know-how in offering innovative factor investing solutions.

Maximizing diversification in order to capture the risk premium of an asset class

  • TOBAM’s Maximum Diversification® approach, supported by original, patented research and a mathematical definition of diversification, provides clients with diversified core exposure, in both the equity and fixed income markets
  • The Anti-Benchmark® strategy is based on the Maximum Diversification® approach and designed to access risk premium evenly from all the effective independent sources of risk available in the market at any given time 
  • Fully quantitative approach, developed, refined and maintained in-house by TOBAM research team

Smart Beta at Amundi

10 years

track
 record

 12 bn €

of assets under
management

8

dedicated portfolio managers in Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong

 

Source : Amundi as of 31/12/2016

Though leadership

Smart Beta by Amundi

  

Our approach
Our solutions
Our capabilities
     

Viewpoint

        

Practical applications of Smart Beta: learning from client business cases

Using Factor Investing: How to make the most of factors

Positioning Value in portfolio construction

Alternative Risk Premia: What Do We Know?

  

 

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