Nick Baltas (Goldman Sachs): Institutional Trends in Systematic Investing

In January 2022, EDHEC Business School has launched a new online monthly speaker series on “The Future of Finance”. The objective is to address the most recent advances in the financial industry and discuss how finance can be a powerful tool for tackling key economic and social challenges. To do so, this series gather all year long international renowned industry experts and academic scholars reflecting the research culture and intellectual commitment of EDHEC. The targeted audience is the current EDHEC Business School finance graduate students, the EDHEC alumni, and the members of the enlarged EDHEC community and guests.

On March 21, 2023, from 6pm until 7pm, we welcome Nick Baltas, Managing director at Goldman Sachs on:

"Institutional Trends in Systematic Investing"

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Over the recent decade, the space of systematic investing has evolved substantially. In the earlier days of its broader adoption from institutional investors it served the purpose of a liquid, uncorrelated/diversifying stream of returns to overlay on top of strategic asset allocation portfolios. Following some challenging periods, namely 2018 and 2020, the investor focus shifted towards looking for investment solutions that would solve for specific investor objectives/economic outcomes, such as looking for equity-defensive solutions, income-generating solutions, more recently inflation-defensive solutions and so on. In that journey systematic investment strategies have been one scalable and versatile tool in the hands of large institutional investors. Nick Baltas will explore current markets trends and potential investment ideas.

EDHEC Discussants are Nikolaos Tessaromatis, Professor at EDHEC, and Laurent Deville, Associate Professor at EDHEC and Financial Economics Track Director.