Total Portfolio Approach: gain agility and improved decision-making in an uncertain world

The economic fallout from the volatility and persistent low yields (including negative rates) has compounded challenges for asset owners. They were already grappling with increasingly complex portfolios and datasets, stemming from waves of new products and investment strategies, multiple siloed systems and incohesive risk management across all asset classes. In response, many are now considering what has become known as a "total portfolio approach".

The Total Portfolio Approach (TPA), implemented by a growing crop of leading asset owners globally, offers an increasingly viable option to address the unpredictability of markets – including the governance, benchmark and inertia drags inherent in more traditional Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA)-based methodologies, revealed a panel discussion hosted by SimCorp and AsianInvestor.

By basing asset allocation on risk exposure – rather than rigidly-defined asset-class benchmarks – and assessing it continuously in real time and across the entire investment team, TPA promises much more nimble and flexible decision making. In turn, it enables asset owners to quickly react to opportunities and, ultimately, produce a diversified portfolio that is more robust in uncertain times.

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