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Multi-Asset Solutions
Active listening, inventive thinking: Tackling the toughest investment challenges.
For more than three decades, the Investment Solutions Group (ISG) has developed asset class-spanning products and services aimed at realizing our clients’ diverse goals. Today, we serve clients around the world, with more than $234 billion in assets under management and under advisory/consulting.*
Managing Multi-Asset Solutions
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We provide a wide range of investment solutions, from implementing short-term, tactical exposures to fully discretionary mandates (also known as “Outsourced CIO”). Here are some of our key multi-asset offerings:
Reinventing Asset Allocation: Investment Solutions
Using a Devil's Advocate to Solve Complex Problems
Learn how our asset allocation team aims to take unintendedbiases out of its investment process.
Over the last decade, inflation has been subdued around the globe and struggled to come close to central bank targets despite loose monetary policy actions. However, influenced by the economic effects of the global pandemic, inflation appears poised to re-emerge in 2021 and to have an impact in the years to come.
The current macroeconomic picture remains attractive for growth assets despite some near-term headwinds. We continue to deploy our risk budget toward equities and broad commodities, while tilting our fixed income portfolio toward credit, both investment grade and high yield.
Each month, the State Street Global Advisors Investment Solutions Group (ISG) meets to debate and ultimately determine a Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) that can be used to help guide near-term investment decisions for client portfolios. By focusing on asset allocation, the ISG team seeks to exploit macro inefficiencies in the market, providing State Street clients with a tool that not only generates alpha, but also generates alpha that is distinct (i.e., uncorrelated) from stock picking and other traditional types of active management. Below are some of the highlights from the ISG team’s most recent “Alpha Meeting”
Planning for a scenario with an inflation surprise has come back on the table in response to the COVID-19 related historic stimulus. Keeping this in mind, it may be prudent for investors to include an allocation to real assets to increase the diversification of their portfolio so as to mitigate unexpected inflation’s potentially adverse outcomes for growth and asset values.
* As of June 30, 2019. Total AUM of $211B excludes execution-only LDI. Derivatives-based exposure management AUM represents the notional value of exposure managed. Assets under advisory/consulting of $23B includes mandates for which the firm provides advisory or consulting services supporting an investment management process that does not include the responsibility to arrange or effect the purchase or sale of securities and/or funds.