Robeco, a leading international asset manager based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is pleased to announce that Morningstar has named Robeco Boston Partners Global Premium Equities fund as the best of its class in a record nine European countries.

Robeco is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as an independent participant by the United Nations Global Compact, after participating via Rabobank Group for more than ten years.

Investors increasingly embrace “smart beta” investing, by which we mean passively following an index in which stock weights are not proportional to their market capitalizations, but based on some alternative weighting scheme. Examples include fundamentally-weighted indices and minimum-volatility indices.

“Which country will be the new China? Which country is ready to dominate the world economy? Not India, not Brazil, nor any other rapidly expanding emerging country, says Henk Grootveld. No, it is…the US.”