Financial advisers often use a form of segmentation to match a portfolio to their clients' investment needs. Commonly called 'bucketing', its purpose is to segment and simplify investment components. Advisers and clients are familiar with risk profiling buckets such as balanced, growth, conservative, or single asset-class buckets such as cash, shares, or property.
Managing portfolios in 2022 is a very different proposition for financial advisers. After decades of steadily falling and low inflation and interest rates, there has been a cyclical change to rising inflation and interest rates. The reasons for this are complex, but the bottom line is that the confluence of factors causing this regime change will likely persist. Therefore, the change is structural and will endure. You can learn more by watching the latest Lander Report.
Any examination of business or investment literature reveals the importance of differentiation. Why would people choose you over a competitor if you're the same as everyone else?
Today, the need for financial advisers to be different has never been greater. Or urgent.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word solution as: the action or process of solving a problem. Using this definition is a helpful way of assessing the benefit of the many investment solutions available to advisers today. Does what's on offer genuinely solve your business problem?
The superannuation and investment market is rapidly transitioning to Managed Accounts, with many also electing to use Managed Portfolio solutions as part of that transition. Funds in Managed Accounts are now estimated to be over $145B*. It's for good reason. Increasing client awareness and the rising costs of compliance reducing adviser margins demand new ways to satisfy clients and drive business efficiency.
Investment portfolio management is central to every financial adviser's value proposition and day-to-day life. How you go about portfolio management for your clients and your business creates client value and maximises your workflow efficiency.
It was nearly 60 years ago, back in 1964, that Bob Dylan wrote his anthem of change: The Times They Are a-Changin'. And so they were.
As the pressure on the economy and markets rises, so too does the business risk that financial advisers face in relation to being able to deliver portfolio returns client's need and to any investment-linked revenue.
Rising inflation, tightening interest rates and market volatility are firmly established trends for 2022. It’s a state of play that puts the active asset allocation front and centre.
In recent years, there has been a chorus of leading investment managers advocating a new approach to portfolio management. Existing methods appeared frail, were beginning to fail or appeared ill-suited to the current and prospective world. Ultra-low interest rates had decimated returns from bonds and cash. At the same time, record fiscal stimulus pushed risk assets such as property and equities into bubble territory while the macroeconomic environment deteriorated.
