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THEMATIC RESEARCH

Sesame Active
Investments

Through its diversified range of AMCs, Sesame Active Investments and its in-house research team offer thematic investment solutions. Our conviction: secular growth investment themes will deliver the most alpha over the medium to long term. Our objective is to generate added value for our clients, by offering innovative investment themes, supported by in-depth analysis of all the catalysts at work.

An innovative range
of thematic portfolios

An innovative
range of thematic
portfolios

We provide our clients with solutions that aim to leverage new, non-cyclical economic drivers that are transforming the world and addressing future challenges.

These issues and trends are mainly demographic, environmental, technological and social. In addition to their growth prospects, these thematic investments make possible exposure to different sectors and geographic areas, depending on the theme’s value chain, with the added objective of resilience and diversification

Our range of thematic AMCs now occupies a prominent place in our clients’ portfolios, thanks to its relevance, the fact that it meets our clients’ expectations and its performance.

Themes identified by
our in-house research team

Sesame Financial Group’s proprietary research adopts a top-down approach:

Identification of strong and precise structural themes likely to deliver the most alpha over the medium to long term
In-depth quantitative and qualitative screening and analysis
Final selection of 10 to 40 stocks (depending on the universe)

Our in-house research team aims to identify the companies that are best placed to take advantage of these underlying trends. This forward-looking approach to investment also makes it possible to identify companies whose potential has not yet been fully recognised by the market.

Our selections are completely transparent and an in-depth investment rationale is systematically provided in our research notes.

CURRENT BEST PICKS BY
SESAME ACTIVE INVESTMENTS

CURRENT BEST
PICKS BY SESAME
ACTIVE INVESTMENTS

THE AGRITECH REVOLUTION

Arable land per capita has decreased by a half since 1961, due to rapid population growth, a trend that is set to persist. The Green Revolution helped drive up cereal yields in the 1960s, but its effects are now fading. Precision agriculture, as a fully connected ecosystem, is driving major changes in the industry and may be the solution. Our proposal is therefore to build up comprehensive and dynamic exposure to modern agriculture techniques.

INNOVATORS & DISRUPTORS

Global data digitalisation is creating new business opportunities: online advertising, the big-data revolution in IT, cybersecurity, digital entertainment, artificial intelligence & machine learning, the digitalisation of healthcare, etc. We believe that several key players in these fields are already well positioned to become the leaders of tomorrow.

US. INFRASTRUCTURE
NEW DEAL

Investing in infrastructure (e.g. roads, airports, water, energy utilities, electric vehicles, broadband and renewables) is a good way to further promote growth in the US. The existing infrastructure has been in constant decay over the last decades. We believe that the time has come for a spectacular modernisation project. Moreover, there is a strong bipartisan support around infrastructure spending in the US.

European Green Deal

Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world. To overcome these challenges and drive a sweeping economic transformation of the bloc, the European Union has laid out a massive “Green Deal”, mobilizing at least €1 trillion over the next decade. The final purpose is to build a resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

A 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) budget of €1,074bn has been voted as well as a specific Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery fund of €750bn. Both are the key EU instruments for the recovery in Europe after the pandemic, and are composed of grants, subsidies, loans, guarantees and direct spending. For a green recovery, addressing climate change must be mainstreamed in the NGEU and the MFF and given a target of 30% of all expenditure.

PHYSICAL & DIGITAL SECURITY

The lowest levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are made up of the most basic needs, while the most complex needs are at the top. As we move up to the second level, the needs for security & safety become salient. In today’s world, we can define them as financial security, heath & wellness, protection against cyber threats, safety against accidents, injury…

A direct consequence is the astounding rise of cybersecurity solutions. The market is in real flux and is poised to rise to $248.6 bn in 2023 from $152.7 bn in 2019 (CAGR 10.2%). There is a multiplicity of factors behind this outstanding rise, beyond the critical nature of cyber protection (new & complex threats, work-from-home policies, regulation especially GDPR/CCPA, a shortage of skilled IT workers…). Not surprisingly, 76% of organizations reported planning net security budget increases in 2020 in response to the current threats & needs.

THEMATIC RESEARCH

Sesame ActiveInvestments

An innovative range of thematic portfolios

An innovativerange of thematicportfolios

Themes identified by our in-house research team

CURRENT BEST PICKS BY SESAME ACTIVE INVESTMENTS

CURRENT BEST PICKS BY SESAMEACTIVE INVESTMENTS