CSAM UK is an active manager which employs a holistic, solutions-based approach to provide innovative investment strategies within a rigorous risk management framework and deliver intellectual capital through institutional and retail investment research.The firm provides equity solutions across geographic regions and styles, offering a selection of products from indexing to actively-managed, customized portfolios. Their active investment process consists of fundamental oriented sector allocation, global country selection and structured stock selection, combined with portfolio construction.CSAM UK offers fixed-income products across various strategies including conservative investment solutions in government, government-related and credit and corporate strategies. Through public funds, segregated accounts and private label funds, they provide access to onshore and offshore investment solutions.Their hedge fund index strategies platform provides systematic market exposure to hedge funds and hedge fund-like returns through index tracking portfolios and index linked solutions. Their Hedge Fund Index aims to achieve performance and diversification through quantitative models and their Liquid Alternative Beta suite generates hedge fund-like returns by investing in liquid securities.The firm’s Multi Asset Class Solutions platform focuses on developing and implementing investment allocation strategies across asset classes, combining traditional investments such as cash, bonds, and equities with non-traditional investments such as alternative investments, commodities and real estate. They also offer a diversification strategy in commodity markets through a commodity-linked derivatives portfolio tailored to an appropriate benchmark. The team’s investment process employs proprietary analytics, aiming to exploit commodity market inefficiencies and provide commodity index exposure without introducing undue spot risk or duration risk. They seek to add alpha by using a proven strategy designed to identify and exploit inefficiencies in the futures roll cycle and by seeking to enhance returns from the underlying cash collateral through active duration and yield curve management.
