Our Global Investments team manages portfolios of assets diversified across all regions of the world and asset classes.
With this strategy, we look for compelling opportunities beyond the 12 month-horizon and typically avoid short-term trading ideas. Our work and our performance is primarily driven by our asset allocation decisions. We follow a disciplined investment process emphasizing fundamental and macro-economic research. We also spend significant time researching and doing due diligence to find the best fund managers in every asset class. We rigorously monitor and manage a variety of risks including inflation, deflation, volatility, illiquidity and currency risks. Our portfolios have relatively low distribution requirements and are therefore positioned towards long-term capital appreciation. In comparison to peers and total portfolio benchmarks, we typically maintain overweight global equities, emerging markets, commodities and private equity.

The Global Investments team is located in Brussels and travels frequently around the world to meet fund managers, business and economy experts.