Value investor Chris Wallis is targeting absolute returns through a total investment perspective

Chris Wallis, manager of the group's US Value Small Cap offering, adopts a strategy of valuing stocks against sector and 'other risk assets'

Vaughan Nelson, a wholly-owned affiliate of Natixis, has some $6.5bn under management with 60% in value oriented equity strategies and the remaining 40% in fixed income. Chris Wallis, senior portfolio manager at Vaughan Nelson, runs the US Small Cap Value fund, alongside co manager Scott Webber. You describe yourself as a value investor. What do you mean by that? We are trying to bring back true capital allocation discipline to the industry. We do not focus on relative valuation or relative returns. We target absolute returns and we try to combine a total investment view of the worl...