Unlike traditional multi manager investing, where diversification is achieved through greater number of underlying investment funds, we rely on proprietary investment behavioural analysis of fund managers. We call this Intelligent Multi Manager Investing. It is about understanding the investment behaviour of fund managers and combining their individual skill sets to create a portfolio that participates well in market upturn and show resilience in market downturn.
We select fund managers for each asset class and assign them into different groups of defensive, moderate and dynamic.
Defensive mangers tend to demonstrate lower expected return, but equally lower expected risk. As we go up the scale of return vs. risk, we find moderate and dynamic managers, with higher expected return and risk. We combine managers from each group to create extended portfolios with required characteristics.
We have consistently shown through our track record that we can achieve better risk diversification, lower volatility and better performance through our approach than by simply having greater number of underlying funds.