Sustainable Investment Research & Strategy at Lombard Odier Asset Management (LOIM)

Foort Hamelink

Dr. Foort Hamelink
Sustainable Investment Research & Strategy at Lombard Odier Asset Management (LOIM)

Foort joined Lombard Odier in 1999 where he co-setup the Quant franchise, managing equity and fixed income portfolios in a fully systematic way.

Ten years later he joined the newly created Fiduciary Management team in the Netherlands as Portfolio Constructor, integrating quantitative approaches at the assets and liabilities sides of pension funds and insurance companies. Since 2017 Foort is responsible for integrating LOIM’s sustainability expertise within tailor-made equities and fixed income solutions for large institutional clients, including pension funds and insurance companies.

Next to his position at LOIM, Foort is also a part-time Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he is lecturing in Finance and Real Estate, with a specific focus of sustainable finance.

Foort earned a PhD in finance from the University of Geneva in 1997, holds a master’s degree in economics and finance and a bachelor’s degree in econometrics.