Thomas Haindl

IQAM Invest is an active, quantitative manager which profits from the research expertise of scientific management. The firm offers a large number of portfolio strategies and specially developed, theoretically well-founded special fund models. Their wide spectrum of public funds includes European bond funds, international equity funds, mixed funds and commodity funds, to name but a few.

Erste AM combines comprehensive country specific knowledge with the strength of an international financial service provider. The main approaches at the firm are: Bottom-Up–qualitative, where the selection of individual securities is the central focus and the portfolio composition is influenced by stock selection; Top-Down, where economic analysis influences the composition of the portfolio at country or sector level; Fundamental-quantitative, where the different asset classes are analyzed for portfolio creation, on the basis of fundamental constants within the historical nexus; and Technical Models which serve to determine short, medium or long-term trending. The output of these models leads to buy and sell signals.