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Why we believe in value

Portfolio manager interview
18 October 2023
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    Pascal Pierre - Head of European Equities and Jeanne Follet - Lead Portfolio Manager of Euroland Value funds at HSBC Asset Management share their views on the attractiveness of value.


    Key points

    • Valuation and economic performance are the key drivers for the market value of a company
    • Over the past years, markets have disregarded the valuation component: they overpay for beautiful growth stories and underpay for ordinary stories
    • Despite a small rebound recently, the Value theme has barely started to recover. Valuation spreads remain at record highs, whilst Value stocks earnings are resilient
    • Style timing is very difficult if not impossible. Yet a number of signals suggests that the valuation gap has to shrink: we think being underweight “Value” is very risky
    • The European Equities team at HSBC Asset Management has built a recognized expertise in Value investing over the past 19 years, based upon a Relative Value approach and relying on the fundamental analysis of stocks
    • HSBC GIF Euroland Value provides a structural exposure to the Value factor. The fund has significantly outperformed the MSCI EMU since 2004 and ranks well compared to Euroland peers

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