Posts tagged as asset allocation

04 Mar 2009

Equity risk is everywhere and unavoidable

6th April 2009, MMC Ventures
Presentation by Stuart Fowler and Joseph Clark

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08 Feb 2009

Markets don’t destroy wealth, people do

Thursday 19th March 2009
Baltic Exchange, 28 St. Mary Axe, London EC3A 8BH
6.15pm for 6.30 start
Stuart Fowler and Joseph Clark

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06 Feb 2009

Why diversification failed to control investment risk

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.

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04 Feb 2009

Diversification is not enough

The 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.

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01 Oct 2008

Horizon matching: the theme of two recent seminars

A 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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