Adaptive Valuation Strategies is our own distinctive strategic asset allocation methodology, which we use to customize a long-term investment plan for you.
By assembling an appropriate mix of equities, fixed income, cash, and other asset classes, you can potentially enhance your core portfolio’s returns and help manage risk.
Adaptive Valuation Strategies (AVS) is Citi Private Bank’s own distinctive strategic asset allocation methodology, which is built upon key principles from our Investment Philosophy.
AVS’s aim is to maximize your returns given the amount of risk you are willing to take.
Our investment process therefore begins by gaining an understanding of your return goals, risk tolerance, and your liquidity, geographic, and currency preferences.
We then customize a long-term plan – or strategic asset allocation – to pursue your goals.
AVS has five levels of allocation according to how much risk you are willing to take on.
Having established an appropriate long-term plan for you, we make tactical adjustments to it, based on the outlook for the next 12 to 18 months.
We can then implement your allocation by building you a core portfolio, using strategies from our own discretionary managers and third-party managers, as well as capital markets strategies.
The long-term plan we create for you highlights what we believe to be the optimal course for pursuing your investment goals in your core portfolio.
BUILT ON SOLID INVESTMENT PRINCIPLES
It is built upon principles established through academic research and proven in practice, and which help form our Investment Philosophy.
These include global multi-asset class diversification, the discipline of regular portfolio rebalancing, and staying fully invested for the long term.
FORWARD-LOOKING RETURNS
SREs are based on valuations and other fundamentals.
When an asset class valuation is expensive or cheap compared to its long-term average, AVS lowers or raises its SRE respectively.
This is because low valuations have tended to give way to high subsequent returns and high valuations to low returns.
A lower SRE will likely lead AVS to recommend a smaller allocation to an asset class, and a higher SRE to a larger allocation.
SPECIALIZED TREATMENT OF RISK
Traditional asset allocation methodologies have often failed to anticipate the frequency and severity of such losses.
AVS therefore uses a specialized measure of risk called Extreme Downside Risk (EDR), which draws upon many decades of asset class history to highlight the risks you may face.
There is a close relationship between SREs and EDRs: higher returns come with higher risks attached.
Paisan has overall responsibility for Citi Wealth’s strategic asset allocation.
Before joining the Private Bank in 2013, he was a quantitative equity portfolio manager and researcher at BlackRock.
Previously, he was a partner at Thunder Bay Capital Management, with responsibility for asset allocation and stock selection. He also worked at Deutsche Asset Management’s Global Research Center, where he helped to develop smart beta strategies.
Paisan holds a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, an MBA from Thammasat University, and a PhD with a concentration in Finance from the Kenan-Flagler School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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