Portfolio Construction and Risk Management
Part two of this two-part video series will delve deeper into portfolio construction and risk management, as well as the critical considerations that underpin both disciplines.
Overview
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of considerations at the securities analysis or portfolio construction stages. Conflating these principles often leads to expensive mistakes. Knowing which risk you take, security selection (alpha) or a portfolio construction (beta) can be life-saving in volatile markets.
Key learning objectives:
What is the primary goal of portfolio construction?
Understand the difference between portfolio construction and security selection
What is risk management and what could go wrong?
Summary
Expert
Alex Struc
Alex is a fixed income investor with deep credit expertise. His work on liquid impact investing, deep expertise in financial markets, and a strong belief in the power of scalable frameworks to outperform and foster positive change drove him to found GOALSFIRST with a single vision of unlocking the full value of finance for change.
Prior to founding GOALSFIRST, Alex managed credit assets for PIMCO for nearly fifteen years, including the firmwide exposure to financials and the world largest bank capital fund. In 2014 he was named FN’s 40 under 40 asset managers for his work in this sector. In his earlier years, he built the firm’s European bank loan business and positioned PIMCO as a liquidity provider in that space by introducing relative value trading to this seemingly illiquid asset class.
