Guido Baltussen serves as the head of Quantitative Strategies International at Northern Trust Asset Management. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Baltussen was, amongst others, the head of Equity Factor Investing and co-head of Quantitative Fixed Income. He is also a professor of Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he teaches courses on behavioral finance and factor risk premia. He has a strong academic background and has published research regularly in prestigious academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Financial Analysts Journal. Notably, he has co-authored work with the 2017 Nobel Prize laureate Richard Thaler. Baltussen actively contributes his expertise to the financial media landscape, regularly sharing insights and analysis on platforms such as Bloomberg and the Financial Times.
These research results should give investors greater confidence in the robustness of factor premiums, reinforcing their utility in crafting effective investment strategies.