Christof K. Breuer

DWS’ strategies incorporate a disciplined investment process and sophisticated risk management which builds on the research expertise and global resources and alternative asset management expertise of Deutsche Bank to leverage first-hand, real-time insight from a global research engine that links analysts and investment professionals worldwide.

Investment decisions are taken in a structured investment process based on fundamental and technical methods. They use a top-down approach to weight securities categories. Sectors and regions as well as individual securities are then selected in a bottom-up procedure. In markets where an active management approach does not promise a sustained improvement in performance, the fund management team prefers an index-oriented method. In this process, clearly defined benchmarks provide the firm with a transparent navigation tool. Markets where superior knowledge of the fund management team may be converted into long-term performance advantages are actively managed.