Massimo Mazzini

Eurizon Capital has developed specific skills with reference to two types of activity: LTE management and wrapping and product management. For LTE management, assets are managed by keeping a high correlation with the performance of the markets of reference and in respect of TEV limit. The assets are thus managed by using statistical models and the managers' qualitative assessments (in particular, in the selection of securities), integrating a top-down approach with a bottom-up approach, with the aim of being able to identify the sources of possible incremental performance vis-à-vis the markets. For wrapping and product management, Eurizon Capital develops and manages unit-linked insurance products created by the insurance companies belonging to the Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

Eurizon AI is an active, conservative manager manages a range of multi-strategy funds of hedge funds, aiming to optimize the risk/return profile of their products. The firm seeks to diversify through both the strategies they employ and the number of funds in which they invest. Their investment process is organized around two critical decisions: allocating various strategies based on the market context, which is constantly assessed by the management team and allocating the best funds selected by the research team within individual strategies. Eurizon AI's management philosophy favors long-term investment which enables the creation of strong, long-term relationships with hedge funds.

Eurizon Capital’s wide range of products for retail and institutional clients are differentiated by management philosophy, style and risk/return profile, based on the following strategies: multi-asset, multi-style and multi-product, active market, and structured and managed according to quantitative methodologies. The firm’s macroeconomic and cyclical analysis models are the basis of their investment perspective and fundamental top-down, medium-term tactical decisions (asset, country and asset allocation).

Epsilon SGR is an active manager which bases investment decisions on a quantitative research process, which includes economic and financial research, as well as statistical data analysis. This research program is conducted in-house; however, the firm remains in close contact with academia as several team members are also university professors. They utilize relative value, asset allocation, dynamic hedging and index tracking models to manage portfolios, which they continuously update in response to the latest research developments.