Guido Baltussen, Ph.D.

About Guido

Guido Baltussen serves as the global head of quantitative strategies at Northern Trust Asset Management, where he oversees business development, research, innovation and thought leadership initiatives. He previously led the firm’s international quantitative teams across Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions as head of quantitative strategies, international.

Before joining Northern Trust in 2023, Guido was the lead portfolio manager and head of equity factor investing and co-head of quantitative fixed income at Robeco. There, he managed the development and oversight of factor-based equity and quantitative fixed income strategies. Before his time at Robeco, he played a significant role as head of quantitative research in fixed income and multi-asset at NN Investment Partners, which has since become part of Goldman Sachs.

Guido earned a Ph.D. in finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an M.Phil. in economics from the Tinbergen Institute. As an accomplished researcher, he has been published in journals like the Journal of Financial Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Financial Analysts Journal. His research papers have received over 100,000 downloads on SSRN. Alongside his professional roles, Guido is also a professor of finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, teaching courses in behavioral finance and factor risk premia.

He has notably co-authored work with Richard Thaler, a Nobel Prize laureate in 2017. Guido is frequently featured in financial media, including Bloomberg and the Financial Times.