Equity risk is everywhere and unavoidable
6th April 2009, MMC Ventures
Presentation by Stuart Fowler and Joseph Clark
6th April 2009, MMC Ventures
Presentation by Stuart Fowler and Joseph Clark
Thursday 19th March 2009
Baltic Exchange, 28 St. Mary Axe, London EC3A 8BH
6.15pm for 6.30 start
Stuart Fowler and Joseph Clark
Diversification has failed to protect investors in this bear market in the way they were told to expect. In this article on the company website No Monkey Business explains how the investment management industry (whether focused on traditional ‘balanced management’, new ‘multi-asset class’ or ‘absolute-return’ investing) has failed to develop robust processes for quantifying and controlling client’s risks because it was relying instead on unrealistic benefits from diversification.
read more Commentary by Stuart FowlerThe diversification of individual risks, which increases expected risk-adjusted returns, is like apple pie, motherhood and the flag. It is so ingrained in the minds of managers and their clients that this aspect of portfolio theory has remained unchallenged during a period of exceptional creativity in the investment industry.
read more Insights by Stuart FowlerA key feature of the No Monkey Business investment approach, horizon matching, has been critical to protecting clients against adverse consequences of a bear market. Failure to match investment risks to time horizons for the money creates a linkage between investment portfolios and household cash flows that can and should be avoided.
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