Gideon Zev Smith

AXA IM-UK focuses on investment areas where they have a competitive edge within each asset class. They are organized in small investment teams dedicated to a specific instrument, sector, region or strategy. Each team is supported by a shared pool of fundamental research resources and empowered to make investment decisions. With fundamental research at the core of their process, their investment professionals seek out and develop sources of alpha across world markets. AXA IM-UK's research is organized along investment strategy, equity and fixed-income and is supported by proprietary quantitative resources and an extensive company visit program.

AXA Rosenberg-UK is an active, research-based equity manager which analyzes fundamental and market data utilizing proprietary software which replicates the reasoning of financial experts, but faster than humanly possible and free of the natural biases and unavoidable mental shortcuts that exist in less systematic decision processes. The firm utilizes their world-class Expert System, which integrates the entire research and investment process, to apply fundamental analysis to global equity markets, seeking to identify companies that are inexpensive relative to their peers and combining the results with a near-term earnings growth forecast. AXA Rosenberg-UK constructs diversified portfolios, employing a Valuation Model, an Earnings Forecast Model and a Risk Model to identify undervalued stocks, companies with superior and inferior year-ahead earnings and minimize risk. Their goal is to build portfolios which have an expected future earnings advantage relative to the market.