Lazard’s Failla On Quality Investing

Rob Failla, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager/Analyst, Lazard Asset Management defines quality investing and why it has enjoyed an impressive long-term track record.  Quality investing is an investment strategy in which clearly defined criteria are used to identify strong, financially stable and resilient companies. The drivers of a business are financial productivity, growth, and length of competitive advantage period. The most important of these qualities is financial productivity, because the best way to increase value is to increase financial productivity, explains Failla. Quality investing has a proven track record of success in US, European, and emerging markets. Failla explains that quality has an attractive risk/return profile, and that typically quality companies are less sensitive to interest rate changes than growth companies.  To learn more, register and watch: The Power of Quality Investing. Lazard Asset Management is an investment management firm that operates in over 24 cities and 17 countries. They manage $220.9 billion in assets under management, across global and regional strategies in traditional and alternative investments. Join Portfolio Manager Rob Failla of Lazard Asset Management for a discussion on:
  • What quality means
  • The importance of sustaining high financial productivity1
  • Why quality companies tend to be less sensitive to changes in interest rates than growth companies
  • Why quality has the potential to outperform other styles of investing over the long term Register Now