DWS KGaA Investor Relations Media Career Belgium Insights Capabilities Solutions Service Profile Search Home » Capabilities » Active Investments Active Investments A large part of the assets entrusted to us is managed actively with the clear objective of creating added value. More than 60 years Investment heritage. More than 450 Investment professionals " We have helped investors address their equity, fixed-income and liquidity needs for decades, through multiple market and economic cycles. Stefan Kreuzkamp Chief Investment Officer and Head of Investment Division At a glance DWS believes in the inherent value of active investment management. Our ~450 investment professionals apply deep market expertise and global intelligence to create both core and custom solutions. Precise product design and exacting standards of execution have long been a hallmark of all our active investment strategies. Within DWS we manage multiple strategies for our clients to meet their varied investment objectives. We constantly strive to develop innovative solutions while our truly global team of research and investment professionals is aiming to deliver superior risk-adjusted performance to our clients. We want to be a leading active investor, who delivers alpha to our clients by leveraging our investment talent using our , to capitalize on market inefficiencies in a responsible manner. As a global asset manager, we maintain offices throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. Main hubs are Frankfurt, New York and Singapore. We bring together a breadth of talent and resources in a structured global framework, capturing the best investment thinking, local research and investment insights from around the world. EUR 553bn actively managed assets Note: All AuM figures as of September 30, 2021 Fixed Income Cash Equity Systematic & Quantitative Investment process Our investment process seeks to deliver consistently superior return. It is a disciplined three stage approach, underpinned by . We pursue a bottom-up approach to generate profitable investment strategies. Our consistent, systematic and transparent investment process allows us to identify those sectors, regions, themes, currencies and single stocks having the most favorable prospects. Our economists provide a thorough analysis of the world economy and the main economic regions. Within the macroeconomic research, the major trends are identified and their impact on various components such as GDP growth, inflation, trade flows is analysed. Our research analysts focus on key market segments, issuers and securities. They provide views on the fundamental situation and offer a short- and long-term oriented assessment of the underlying market price and especially factors in order to enhance risk adjusted investment performance and reputation. Both components, macroeconomics and fundamental analysis & value assessment, are the main inputs for the (strategic and tactical view). CIO view depicts a directional world view which enables investment orientation and mind setting internally and externally. The CIO View has 2 components as well. The strategic CIO view provides long-term outlook and orientation. The tactical CIO View is a short-term assessment of key global fixed income markets. It serves as a for portfolio construction and portfolios are expected to be invested in alignment with these global CIO recommendations. In addition, the tactical CIO view puts the into a generic portfolio context and provides a relative-value asset allocation, based on a global aggregate benchmark concept. Quality management works along the entire process and ensures outcomes get analysed and challenged by independent teams as an integral part of practice refinement and delivers transparency in analyzing the three main components: performance, risk and process – in a holistic, commingled way Investing in Equities DWS is one of the leading asset manager globally with a broad range of actively managed equity funds. Read more Alternatives Alternatives Investments Managing alternative investments through multiple market cycles guides all decision-making. Passive CIO VIEW QUARTERLY NEWS- LETTER 1. as of September 30, 2021 Quick Access DWS KGaA CIO View Facts & Figures Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement (PDF) Engagement Policy (PDF) Information on sustainability Contact Copyright © 2021 DWS Cookies Policy We use cookies and similar technologies that are essential to operate our websites. With your consent, we will use cookies for performance analysis of our websites. 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