At Federated Hermes, we put our equity, fixed income and liquidity strategies through a ruthless vetting process. Because we believe if an investment can survive in our world, it can survive in yours.
Federated Hermes. Vetting for a volatile world.
Vetting isn’t just good for consumer products, but for financial ones.
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How we vet our employees.
We’re as careful about choosing our people as choosing our investments. So before someone joins the Federated Hermes team, we don't only analyze their track record. We try to analyze their character. Because we want our fund managers, analysts and sales team to be known for their integrity, not just their intellect.
Can your fixed income investment withstand a drop in the market?
Federated Hermes has four independent committees that vet our actively managed, fixed income products. Because we believe the more perspectives we get, the stronger the investments you'll get.
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It's a rough-and-tumble market. So at Federated Hermes, we put the investments in our MDT equity portfolios through a ruthless, alpha-seeking model. Analyzing thousands of stocks every day and adjusting for evolving market dynamics. Because no one wants an investment that cracks under pressure.
As a result, we don’t chase the hot dot because we believe that’s too risky. We know investors prefer more steady results, not erratic ones. In good times and in bad.
Our vetting process isn’t just thorough. It’s ruthless. We hold hundreds of meetings focused on determining the right investments in our portfolios. Gaming out every scenario we can imagine. Testing what those investments can and can’t handle under the most volatile conditions. Because we want to find the small problems before they become big ones.
How we vet our products.
We listen. To the financial intermediaries and institutional investors who are our clients. We're not just interested in their ordinary investment and risk tolerance goals. But strategic ones. Because in a market as volatile as this one, it’s not always easy to know when it’s wise to pivot and when it’s wise to hold your ground. At Federated Hermes, we’ve been around for generations. So we’ve seen our share of market cycles and have a range of active strategies to help you deal with them.
How we vet our client’s goals.
If you are a financial advisor, our Portfolio Construction Solutions team can assess your portfolio models and conduct market scenario stress testing to uncover hidden risks and hard-to-recognize exposures. We have a library of 100 different scenarios to choose from. Or, we can customize a “what-if” scenario of your own market outlook.
How we vet your client’s asset mix.
New investments like trade finance, cryptocurrency and NFTs are always cropping up. So how do we decide if they’re worth adopting? Ruthless vetting. So we’re not just jumping on the bandwagon. We're making a thoughtful, reasoned assessment to help earn your trust.
How we vet novel investment classes.
We test our equity portfolios until they cry "uncle."
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If you really want to gauge how an investment will perform under pressure, you test it.
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So at Federated Hermes, we put our investments through a ruthless vetting process.
You stress it. You throw everything you have at it.
Gaming out every scenario we can imagine.
Because we want to see how an investment performs before we invest in it.
Federated Hermes. Vetting for a volatile world.
Video transcript
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If you really want to gauge how an investment will perform under pressure, you test it.
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