20 years: Trading & hedge funds
In this video, Trevor looks at how portfolio managers implement, execute and monitor their portfolios, how they manage risk and how they assess where returns were generated.
In this video, Trevor looks at how portfolio managers implement, execute and monitor their portfolios, how they manage risk and how they assess where returns were generated.
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Deciding how a portfolio is going to be established is only the first step in managing a portfolio. A portfolio manager will have to implement, execute and monitor their portfolio through a range of methods. They will also then need to use attribution analysis to determine how well they’ve actually performed.
Key learning objectives:
Outline the importance of implementation, execution and monitoring
Understand the importance of risk management
Understand attribution analysis and what it is used for
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Portfolio implementation is executing the underlying investments in line with the SAA and TAA. Within the implementation stage, several things need to be considered: location of the underlying assets, whether the portfolio is actively or passively managed and ESG policies.
Once the portfolio is implemented it needs monitoring on a continuous basis due to changes in financial markets that may impact it.
This is arguably the most important part of portfolio management. Even if your SAA is optimal, poor risk management can cause you to lose everything.
There are three elements to risk managing a portfolio:
Attribution analysis is understanding what went well and what didn’t with portfolio returns over the relevant time period.
We need to determine whether it was gained by luck, whether it was generated by one or multiple underlyings and we also need to know how the benchmark performed. If the benchmark returned 8% then the portfolio manager didn’t do very well!
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