Investment Risk Management

Robust risk management involves structuring well hedged portfolios, aligned to time horizon and risk tolerance.

Investments

Investment Risk Management

Our risk management philosophy centres on appropriate levels of diversification, where risk is managed and patience is rewarded. Working with multiple fund managers and their fund styles and strategies, we focus on capital growth with active risk mitigation, seeking to deliver more steady and consistent returns, whilst safeguarding capital across market cycles.

Investment Risk Management

Investments

Investment Risk Profiling

All financial advisors must carry out a personal investment risk profile analysis, prior to recommending any suitable investment strategy for their clients.

This risk and reward profiling is to help place clients within their appropriate investment risk rating, taking plan type, time horizon and risk affordability into account.

These volatility levels are known as ESMA risk ratings, and play an important role in advising clients, but this represents only the first layer of robust investment risk management.

Managing long-term volatility within set target ranges, is hugely important, as is an understanding the dangers of behavioural bias, recency bias and herd mentality.

We utilise leading analytic fund comparison tools, to provide us with important market data and to compare individual fund performance, volatility and value, against market peers.

In making our recommendations, we will also display and explain our use of Total Expense Ratios (TERs) as well as historic volatility measurers, relevant to your portfolio. This provides genuine cost transparency, leading to the implementation of appropriate risk and reward structures.

Investment Risk Management

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Investment Philosophy

Our investment philosophy is not only about employing appropriate asset diversification, but where appropriate, strategic fund manager blending.

We have an active bias, but leverage passive cost-savings, where market conditions allow, always employing both growth and value stock considerations.

Every portfolio is aligned with its investment time horizon, but for those higher risk investors, you can also choose to employ a level of built-in downside protection (put options and gold stabilization), as well as currency hedging, as may be required.

1. Minimium Costs

Over your investment time horizon, the appropriate use of passive indexed funds, together with competitively costed active fund holdings, will help you avoid unnecessary charges.

2. Blended Portfolios

Cheaper passive holdings alone, cannot react to market volatility like active can, and as market dips are inevitable, sufficient time to recover is essential. We construct client portfolios on a bespoke basis, but with an active bias.

3. Long Term Guidance

Market conditions will change. We actively monitor your investments performance, and when needed may rebalance its allocation. We will also help you understand the danger of behavioural bias and impulsive decision-making in any market cycle.

Risk Management Solutions

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Risk Management Strategies

Our bespoke investment solutions involve the construction of diversified portfolios spanning several asset classes, as well as investment managers, and includes the full implementation and monitoring of a long-term critical plan.

We preference active, top down investment managers, who actively manage your fund focused on the macro factors of the economy, before examining micro factors such as specific sectors or companies.

Top-down investment strategy can be contrasted to bottom-up investing, which prioritizes the performance and fundamentals of individual companies before going to macro factors.

Blending both strategies (allowing for our top-down bias), as well as active and passive styles, can play a part in hedging overall portfolios.

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