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Robeco Spain sees sustainability and active ETFs driving growth
Laura Román has led Robeco in Spain since April 2024 and says the firm wants to gain market share.
Under her leadership, Robeco's assets under management in Spain rose by nearly €4 billion, reaching €12.5 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2026.
Román says sustainability, active ETFs, emerging markets and quantitative investing will be the firm's main growth drivers in the coming years.
Investors are concerned about stock market indexes becoming concentrated and about how artificial intelligence may affect investment choices.
Robeco has developed products including quantitative active ETFs that aim to outperform indexes while staying close to them, and its 3D approach also considers sustainability.
Institutional clients continue to seek sustainable investment options, while demand from individual investors is less strong than in the sector's earlier growth phase.
The firm says it is also seeing rising demand from clients in Asia, while demand from American clients has eased somewhat.
Robeco sees sustainability, active ETFs, emerging markets and quantitative investing as growth drivers in Spain.
The firm’s assets under management in Spain reached €12.5 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2026.
Laura Román, who has led Robeco in Spain since April 2024, said the firm aims to gain market share.
Román said institutional clients actively demand sustainable products, while retail demand is less pronounced than before.
She identified encouraging savings among average Spanish clients as a major challenge for the coming years.
- Who
- Robeco and its head in Spain, Laura Román.
- What
- Robeco sees sustainability, active ETFs, emerging markets and quantitative investing as drivers of growth in Spain.
- When
- Román has led Robeco in Spain since April 2024; the firm’s assets under management were reported at the end of the third quarter of 2026.
- Where
- Spain.
- Why
- The firm aims to gain market share and sees these areas as opportunities for growth.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Laura Román became head of Robeco in Spain.
Robeco entered the active ETF market, according to Román.
Robeco’s assets under management in Spain stood at €12.5 billion.
- Spain assets under management
- €12.5 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2026
- Assets added under Román
- Almost €4 billion
- Robeco Spain leadership
- Laura Román, since April 2024
- Active ETF assets under management
- More than €2 billion
- Inverco ranking
- Ninth in statistics covering flows within investment funds
What people are saying
At the retail-client or end-investor level, we do not see as strong a wave as in the first stage.
The institutional client actively demands it.
The client is at the center for us, so that we can provide tailor-made solutions.