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Bastiaan Berendsen , Edwin Scheffers , Dennis Grashoff , Tomaz Mota
“ Our value add is in market insights , knowledge of trading strategy and the implementation thereof . One of the sources I ' m using more and more for data and information is social media . Mainly Twitter [ X ],” explains Boletis . “ Having a social media feed , it feels like you are in a multi-asset dealing room even if you are in a small team in New York because you receive so much information . It ' s stock-specific [ insights ] but also market wide because different assets all correlate . It ' s important to be in the loop of all those market movements .”
Each member of the global Robeco equities team brings an individual skillset to the trading desk . As an innovator from early on , the long-only asset manager ’ s set up has left it agile in the wake of major market shifts taking place globally in recent years – not least the seismic shift to T + 1 that has left many others floundering . And this is a strategy it intends to carry through to the future , whatever that may bring .
“ If we do the same thing over and over again , we stay the same ,” concludes Wijgerse . “ In order to stay good , we need to become better .”
Jules Boletis
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