Guido Baltussen

About Guido

Guido Baltussen is head of quantitative strategies international at Northern Trust Asset Management, leading various aspects of business development, research, innovation, and thought leadership. Based in Amsterdam, Guido oversees the firm’s expanding international quantitative teams in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2023, Guido was the lead portfolio manager/head of equity factor investing and co-head of quantitative fixed income at Robeco, overseeing the development and management of factor-based equity and quantitative fixed income strategies. Previously to Robeco, Guido played a pivotal role as the head of quantitative research in fixed income and multi-asset at NN Investment Partners, which is now a part of Goldman Sachs.

Guido holds a Ph.D. in finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an M.Phil. in economics from the Tinbergen Institute. An accomplished researcher, Guido has published regularly in journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the American Economic Review, and the Financial Analysts Journal. Additionally, Guido serves as a professor of finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he teaches courses on behavioral finance and factor risk premia.

Notably, he has co-authored work with the 2017 Nobel Prize laureate, Richard Thaler. Furthermore, Guido actively contributes his expertise to the financial media landscape, regularly sharing insights and analysis on platforms such as Bloomberg and the Financial Times.