RankiaPro Funds Meeting in Luxembourg: Insights from Fund Managers
4 MAR, 2026
The latest edition of the RankiaPro Funds Meetings took place on Thursday, February 26th, at the prestigious Hotel Le Royal Luxembourg. The event brought together top investment professionals to discuss market trends, investment strategies, and economic outlooks for the coming months.
- Ronald Richter, Regional Director, Investment Strategy - Europe from Bitwise.
- Matt Lodge, Investment Strategist from Global X ETFs.
- Kamal Chancari, Senior Portfolio Manager from Palatine Asset Management.
- Eric Daniel, Head of Convertible Bond from Quaero Capital.
The morning began with a networking breakfast, allowing fund selectors and buyers to exchange insights on key market challenges and opportunities. Each speaker then presented their firm's investment approach, fund strategies, and market perspectives, providing attendees with valuable takeaways on portfolio positioning and asset allocation in the current economic climate.
Ronald Richter, Regional Director, Investment Strategy - Europe from Bitwise.
Bitwise is a global specialist asset manager focused on digital assets, with more than USD 15 billion in client assets across its platform. Since 2017, the firm has managed a range of delta-one, index and active strategies across ETPs, ETFs, separately managed accounts, private funds, staking and hedge fund strategies in the U.S. and Europe.+1
In Europe, Bitwise offers physically backed crypto Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Key solutions include the Bitwise Core Bitcoin ETP (BTC1), designed to provide exposure to Bitcoin with a current total expense ratio (TER) of 0.05%*, the Bitwise MSCI Digital Assets Select 20 ETP (DA20), which seeks to track an index representing approximately 90% of digital asset market capitalization, and a range of Staking ETPs that incorporate staking mechanisms within their structure.
The European ETP suite is domiciled in Germany, with digital assets held in cold storage custody with regulated custodians.
Matt Lodge, Investment Strategist from Global X ETFs.
Copper and silver’s demand picture is dominated by strategically-important sectors, such as AI datacentres, grid infrastructure, electrification, defence and emerging markets’ buildout. Spending in these areas translates directly into short-, medium- and long-term demand for these conductive metals.
Combined with this, the mining industry has gone through a decade of consolidation and disciplined capital expenditure. This means that the supply side is limited in scale and ability to react to emerging and high-velocity sources of demand, meanwhile the miners themselves have clean balance sheets and strengthening margins.
At Global X, our approach is to offer targeted exposure to the beneficiaries of the supply-demand dynamics across copper and silver, allowing investors to capitalise on the above themes. Equities in the mining and refining value chain of these two metals offer a unique risk-reward profile in an evolving economy.
Kamal Chancari, Senior Portfolio Manager from Palatine Asset Management.
Palatine Asset Management, the premium boutique of Groupe BPCE, presents its Palatine Amérique fund, a pioneering solution classified as Art. 8 (SFDR). Managed by Kamal Chancari, the strategy utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the scientific processing of data within the U.S. large-cap equity market.
The investment process, named Finaipro, analyzes more than 2,500 financial, macroeconomic, and behavioral variables for each security. This technology makes it possible to eliminate human psychological biases and optimize stock selection through a scientific bottom-up approach.
The resulting portfolio is optimized and composed of approximately 50 stocks. The strategy aims to capture the innovation potential of the United States — which already represents more than 70% of the MSCI World — by combining the computational power of deep learning with expert supervision to generate robust long-term performance.
Eric Daniel, Head of Convertible Bond from Quaero Capital.
The strategy aims to deliver long-term capital appreciation by investing globally in pure vanilla convertible bonds without benchmark, sector, or geographic constraints.
It seeks attractive risk-adjusted returns with low correlation to equities through the asymmetric, convex payoff profile of convertibles. Performance is driven by actively extracting inherent convexity, combining top-down macro analysis to identify long-term themes with rigorous bottom-up issuer fundamental and technical analysis.
Portfolio construction is disciplined, focusing on liquidity, convexity optimization, ESG integration and currency-hedged exposures.
The portfolio targets an investment-grade bias, diversified holdings and controlled duration to enhance downside protection while preserving equity upside. The approach is purely cash-based, avoiding options and complex derivatives, and is actively managed to optimize the risk/return profile across regions, sectors and credits.
Overall, the strategy offers equity-like participation with a limited risk budget and strong capital preservation characteristics.
It is suitable for long-term diversified investors seeking resilient performance over cycles.
