In this episode of Leaders in Investment, Tom Mergaerts, CEO of Belgium’s not-for-profit Amonis pension discusses his investment philosophy, the dangers of inflation and his goal of making Amonis the provider of choice for all of Belgium’s self-employed liberal professionals.

Themes include the special duty to the self-employed, who have no employer or sponsor to fall back on; choosing allocation models that can provide forward-looking information; the ‘illusion’ of passive investing and his contrarian perspective on investing in private markets.

This episode of Leaders in Investment is sponsored by PGIM.

"Index investing is not passive. You can call it passive, but it's just someone else who decides what to buy."

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