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Title: Strategies for Maneuvering Through Volatility |
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 |
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
Duration: 1 hour |
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Now On Demand. As we continue to experience unprecedented market volatility, your clients may want to preserve capital, and you may want your clients to stay invested in the market. Harbor believes that volatility is part of the “new” new normal and may continue for a prolonged period. Additionally, Robeco is monitoring this prolonged period of volatility and will join the Harbor investment team to share insights and performance expectations around low volatility/conservative equity investing during these times. |
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Pim van Vliet is the Head of the Conservative Equities team, responsible for Robeco’s Low-volatility strategy ‘Conservative Equities’. He is also Co-Head of Quant Allocation. He has published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Management Science, the Journal of Portfolio Management and other academic journals. Pim is a guest lecturer at several universities and advocates low-volatility investing at international seminars. He is the author of numerous academic research papers and a book on low-volatility investing. Pim joined Robeco in 2005 as a Researcher with responsibility for asset allocation research. He became Portfolio Manager in 2010. Pim holds a PhD and a Master’s cum laude in Financial and Business Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. |
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Andrew Prewitt is a managing director at Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. He is a member of the Investment group, which is responsible for the identification, evaluation, and selection of investment managers for the Harbor Funds and the Harbor Capital Group Trust. Prior to joining Harbor Capital Advisors, Andrew was portfolio manager/manager research analyst at UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. He earned a B.B.A in Accounting and MAcc (Masters in Accountancy) in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Andrew is a CFA® charterholder. |
Robeco Institutional Asset Management US Inc. is an affiliate of the adviser, Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. In providing services to the Fund, RIAM US uses designated persons of its affiliates, including Robeco Nederland B.V. and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (“RIAM BV”), based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Robeco Hong Kong Limited, based in Hong Kong, and Robeco Overseas Investment Fund Management (Shanghai) Limited Company, based in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. RIAM US and such affiliates are referred to collectively, as “Robeco.”