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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.*
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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:
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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”
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”
The “right” rebalancing policy is likely to vary by investor return objectives, risk tolerance, sensitivity to turnover, and desire to manage implementation complexity. Our research suggests that regular portfolio rebalancing is additive compared to a buy-and-hold strategy, and generates modest excess return while controlling active risk relative to a strategic benchmark.
Reinventing Asset Allocation: Investment Solutions
Using a Devil's Advocate to Solve Complex Problems
Learn how our asset allocation team aims to take unintended biases out of its investment process.
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* 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.