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Multi-Asset Class Investment Strategy

Multi-Asset Class Investment Strategy

by Guy Fraser - Sampson (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

The book explains that instead of asset allocation being set in an isolated and arbitrary fashion, it is in fact the way in which specific hurdle investment returns can be targeted, and that this approach is already in use in the US (and has been for many years). It involves extended and detailed financial analysis of various asset class returns and proposes a five-asset class approach for future use. Opening with a study of the historic asset allocation practice of UK pension funds, the book shows how the current approach has led to the present funding crisis. It goes on to compare and contrast the UK approach with that of the US and to propose a new approach to UK asset allocation: the five asset class approach ( MAC Investing ). The book reviews and analyses different asset classes based on historic returns, examines risk, and concludes with a suggestion of the five asset classes to use; Quoted equities (both Domestic and foreign), hedge funds, private equity and property. This book also includes benchmark performance figures never previously published.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 16 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 0470027991
ISBN 13: 9780470027998

Media Reviews
...pension fund trustees right around the globe should read the book... is certain to stir up some much needed debate... (Global Pensions, July 2006) ...an indispensable roadmap for anyone looking to create a successful investment programme... (The Securities Investment Review, July 2006) ...a popular choice...drawing on over 20 years of experience... (Pensions Management, July 2006) clear and punchy...argues convincingly...this book cannot but help to clarify your thinking. (Benefits and Compensation International, August 2006) On the other side of the fence...Guy Fraser-Sampson...the lack of interest in the Yale model. (Financial Times, November 2006)
Author Bio
GUY FRASER-SAMPSON has twenty years' experience of the investment industry across a range of asset classes, most notably private equity. His career has included a spell as Investment Controller with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and setting up and running for several years the European operations of one of the world's leading fund of funds managers. Guy is a well-known figure on the conference circuit, both as a speaker and as a panellist. His first major speech on MAC investing (to the UK's National Association of Pension Funds in 2005) sparked media attention around the globe and helped to establish MAC investing as one of the current hot topics of the investment world. He is the inventor of the Total Funding Model, by which pension funds can calculate their target rate of investment return, and previously developed a model for analysing the performance of buyout managers. Guy Fraser-Sampson has an LLB with Honours from King's College London and an MBA majoring in finance from Warwick Business School. Originally a practising lawyer, he was made an equity partner in a City of London law firm at the age of 26, having been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts a year earlier. Guy has contributed many articles over the years to investment and pension publications, but this is his first book.