Karl Stäcker

FTI is an active manager with a long-term investment outlook which focuses on European equity and international fixed-income, especially corporate bonds and asset-backed securities. The firm follows a risk/return-oriented approach for equity investments. They allocate assets and select sectors following a top-down process based on macroeconomic, quantitative and technical research while the stockpicking process is bottom-up and based on in-house fundamental research. FTI follows a similar approach for fixed-income investments, especially in the case of corporate bonds, the selection of which is based on fundamental research. Corporate bond specialists work together with equity fund managers and analysts and participate in the company visitation program. The firm utilizes proprietary quantitative models to assist both equity and fixed-income portfolio managers.

BHF Capital provides buy-side research.