{"id":3712,"date":"2015-12-22T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/en\/?page_id=3712"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:03:37","slug":"strategy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/about-assetgrip-management\/strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Smart Diversification&#8230;Quant + Common Sense&#8230;Core\/Satellite Investing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a professional investor it is important to conduct your business with a sense of humbleness, as \u00a0inexhaustible scientific investment research shows that only about 20% of the active asset managers are able to consistently outperform the self-imposed (composite) benchmark in the long run. In addition, within the financial industry two different schools of thought are distinguished; \u2018<em><strong>bottum-up<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 investors who select individual stocks to build their investment portfolios, and \u2018<em><strong>top-down<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 \u00a0investors, who are thinking in \u2018clouds of financial titles\u2019 to set up their portfolios. The mix of both approaches is often indicated with the term \u2018<em><strong>Core-Satellite<\/strong><\/em>\u2018, where the core of the portfolio is invested in passive Exchange Traded Funds (<em><strong>ETF\u2019s,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Beta exposure<\/strong><\/em>), and the satellite part is invested through active asset managers, who, because of their specific skills, are deemed to be able to add value to the overall portfolio (<em><strong>Alpha managers<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Assetgrip Management implement the above-described \u2018Core-Satellite\u2019 approach in their daily practice, with the main premise that as a professional investor one should\u00a0<em><strong>focus<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0only on those elements that you can actually influence. These elements consist of the modeling of individual risk-budgets over different asset classes (<em><strong>Smart Diversification<\/strong><\/em>), executing at the lowest <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/en\/fee-structure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost <\/a><\/strong><\/em>and the discipline to go through an integrated predefined investment process <em><strong>without emotions<\/strong><\/em>. Investments in <em><strong>ETF&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/em>are considered as investments in individual stocks. However a look-through analysis is implemented to give the investment manager an idea of the economic exposure\/sensitivity of the portfolio towards economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>By going through a predefined investment process with <em><strong>discipline<\/strong><\/em>, one ensures the highest probability that a long-term investor is rewarded with the expected returns form financial markets, where the level of risk accepted is undeniably linked to the expected returns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Diversification&#8230;Quant + Common Sense&#8230;Core\/Satellite Investing As a professional investor it is important to conduct your business with a sense of humbleness, as \u00a0inexhaustible scientific investment research shows that only about 20% of the active asset managers are able to consistently outperform the self-imposed (composite) benchmark in the long run. In addition, within the financial&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/about-assetgrip-management\/strategy\/\" class=\"gdlr-button with-border excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3721,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3712\/revisions\/11093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.assetgrip.com\/management\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}