
Robeco Asset Management Podcast
This podcast is for professional investors only. Robeco Podcasts: offering engaging interviews on Sustainability, Factor Investing & trends.
Latest episodes

Apr 7, 2025 • 12min
Market Flash – It’s too early yet to add risk
Colin Graham, Co-head of Investment Solutions at Robeco, shares his expertise on current market challenges from London. He discusses the indiscriminate selling trends among hedge funds and how this fuels market volatility. Graham highlights the impact of recent U.S. tariff hikes and the plummeting effectiveness of traditional investment strategies. He emphasizes the shift toward safer assets like bonds and the need for strategic diversification. Additionally, he touches on navigating commodity markets and the value of maintaining a long-term investment focus during downturns.

Mar 31, 2025 • 6min
A random talk down Quant Street, Ep. 4/11 – What’s the perfect quant stock?
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 we meet again with Matthais Hanauer, researcher and director at Robeco, to find out more about the perfect quant stock

Mar 21, 2025 • 27min
The tables have turned, and EM might benefit from it
Global markets are reeling from unpredictable US policy shifts – from tariff wars to geopolitical moves – all of which has left emerging market equity investors on edge. Positioning portfolios for 2025 and beyond demands a clear grasp of regional, country, and sector dynamics. Investors are looking for alternatives to US Big Tech companies and start adding regions with more attractive valuations and decent prospects.

Mar 17, 2025 • 6min
A random talk down Quant Street, Ep. 3/11 – Which factors work (and which don’t)?
Academic literature tells us there are more than 300 factors. But not all can be exploited by investors. In this third episode of our new podcast series, Quant researcher Matthias Hanauer explains the five criteria these factors should meet in order to help achieve long-term alpha.

Mar 7, 2025 • 30min
You AI-nt seen nothing yet
AI has shaken up the investment world, generating impressive stock-market gains for the perceived winners. Is the market now starting to move beyond its obsession with the usual suspects in the AI race? Portfolio managers Jack Neele and Daniel Ernst discuss how they’re dealing with these questions.

Mar 3, 2025 • 5min
A random talk down Quant Street, Ep. 2/11 – What’s in it for you?
Active Quant offers stable, systematic outperformance with predictable risk-return characteristics. But what’s really in it for you? In the second of this new series on Quant Investing we sit down with Jeroen Hagens, Client Portfolio Manager for Quant Equities at Robeco, to get the inside scoop.

Feb 17, 2025 • 7min
A random talk down Quant Street, Ep. 1/11 – Why quant investing is not a black box
Quant investing has been called a ‘black box,’ but is that really the case? In the first of this new series on Quant Investing we sit down with Harald Lohre, Director of Quant Research at Robeco, to break down this myth.

Jan 31, 2025 • 29min
Ignore momentum at your own peril
Equity markets are living through one of the most powerful momentum runs in decades, driven in large part by the continued dominance of US large-cap equities. But with valuations soaring, the question is: can the winners keep on winning, or will the momentum train soon lose steam?

Dec 17, 2024 • 30min
Buying skepticism in the market
In a world in which the momentum factor is a key driver of investor flows, and where investment sentiment is heavily skewed towards US mega-caps, a contrarian view can pay off. Boston Partners portfolio manager Chris Hart talks about opportunities in healthcare, consumer staples, financials and industrials.

Nov 22, 2024 • 29min
No (soft) landing in 2025
Robeco’s one-year outlook, titled ‘This is not a landing’, looks at how the US economy so far skillfully manages to defy all the indicators flashing an immediate recession risk. Peter van der Welle and Colin Graham discuss a broad range of both regions and asset classes in our latest podcast episode.