Asia should take note of low-volatility approach: Robeco

Asian investors will warm to low-volatility investing, argues – and patently hopes – Robeco’s senior quantitative researcher Winfried Hallerbach. The Rotterdam-based manager’s 18-strong quant team is on a mission to change traditional beliefs that high risk necessarily yields higher returns. Lower-risk stocks can provide alpha, too, insists Hallerbach. The firm launched its first low-vol equities fund targeting institutional investors in Europe in 2006. Now Hallerbach and his co…