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A fundamental top-down approach, combined with rigorous risk management, offering a wide range of investment solutions and generating optimal risk-adjusted returns.
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Our strength in Multi-Asset & Overlay is built upon our capacity to meet a wide range of specific investment objectives and risk diversification through a conviction-driven investment approach. In the words of our head of Multi-Asset & Overlay: 

We use a fundamental, top-down approach aimed at processing and anticipating global macroeconomic developments. Our objective is to achieve optimal diversification, in order to build efficient portfolios and to actively control risk.

Michael Nizard

Head of Multi-Asset & Overlay

Our strength in Multi-Asset & Overlay is built upon our capacity to meet a wide range of specific investment objectives and risk diversification through a conviction-driven investment approach. In the words of our head of Multi-Asset & Overlay: 

We use a fundamental, top-down approach aimed at processing and anticipating global macroeconomic developments. Our objective is to achieve optimal diversification, in order to build efficient portfolios and to actively control risk.

Michael Nizard

Head of Multi-Asset & Overlay

Optimal diversification
& risk management

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Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management deploys an investment-led approach, bringing together complementary teams to offer investors exposure to many market segments within the Multi-Asset & Overlay division. The investment team creates strong synergies and interacts with all our equity and fixed income portfolio managers.

Our strategies allow investor to benefit from the advantages and opportunities of a wide range of asset classes and market instruments. The investment process is based both on conviction and on tactical and flexible investment management.

We draw on our proven expertise across the main asset classes and our capacity to use hedging tools to offer various investment solutions designed to meet specific investor needs.

Innovation is at the heart of our strategy. Our commitment is reflected in periodic strategic reviews of our processes, continuous enhancement of our tools, and by the introduction of new approaches & strategies.

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Multi-Asset & Overlay insights

Market flash: The screws tighten on prime minister Bayrou’s government

Market insights

Market flash: The screws tighten on prime minister Bayrou’s government

05/09/2025

•    Despite the current political uncertainty, French government debt is still easily finding buyers, with the France’s treasury department successfully raising € 11bn. 
•    Fiscal risk weighed on the UK’s long bonds, with 30-year gilt yields reaching highs not seen since 1998.
•    US Treasury yields were under pressure this week, as the 30-year bond revisited 5% before poor economic data caused it to fall back.

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Letter from the CIO AM : A bumpy end to the summer, with stable allocationsv

Market insights,

Letter from the CIO AM : A bumpy end to the summer, with stable allocationsv

03/09/2025

On either side of the Atlantic, these past few weeks have been bustling with news. Although we chose not to adjust our allocations in response to these headlines, we did strengthen several of our convictions and have identified new factors calling for vigilance.

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Letter from the CIO AM : US assets call for further caution

Market insights

Letter from the CIO AM : US assets call for further caution

04/06/2025

The US administration is pushing the idea that the protectionist phase will end around the July 4th celebrations and that it will then focus on a programme of tax cuts and deregulation, which investors seem to believe in. The draft budget being drawn up in Congress does indeed raise hopes of a net fiscal stimulus of around 1% of GDP.

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EdR Fund Bond Allocation: A flexible approach amidst contrasting market dynamics

Thematic and product insights

EdR Fund Bond Allocation: A flexible approach amidst contrasting market dynamics

20/05/2025

Depuis le début de l’année, les marchés obligataires évoluent dans un environnement macroéconomique mouvant, marqué par des signaux contradictoires entre les grandes zones économiques. Alors que la Chine était confrontée aux mesures protectionnistes américaines, avec en toile de fond un ralentissement de l’activité économique, l’économie américaine, longtemps perçue comme résiliente, commence à montrer des signes d’essoufflement. Les craintes d’une récession outre-Atlantique se renforcent, alimentées par la perspective d’une baisse de la consommation et une résurgence de l’inflation. 
Les investisseurs doivent ainsi composer avec des dynamiques divergentes et une visibilité limitée sur les trajectoires des taux d’intérêt aux Etats-Unis, rendant, selon nous, les stratégies obligataires flexibles plus pertinentes que jamais.

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