Core-Satellite Portfolio Management - Hardcover

Singleton, J. Clay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071413375 ISBN 13: 9780071413374

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

Synopsis

Active versus passive portfolio management is the most important policy decision institutional investors must make

In Core- Satellite Portfolio Management, J. Clay Singleton address this dilemma with the all-new core-satellite approach, which draws on the strengths of each style while eliminating the weaknesses.

Prominent practitioners, consultants, and academics then join with the author to reveal how the revolutionary core-satellite method will improve investment performance for virtually every major asset class.

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The innovative approach that combines indexed and active management, to lower risk while enhancing growth potential

The core-satellite portfolio approach combines the most powerful aspects of active and passive management into a flexible and market-proven investment strategy. Increasingly popular with major institutions and investment professionals worldwide, it enables portfolios to produce market returns while adding the potential to outperform popular market benchmarks through alternative investment vehicles.

Core-Satellite Portfolio Management provides a comprehensive overview of both the theory and practice of the core-satellite approach. Combining insights from award-winning professor and financial executive J. Clay Singleton with contributions from leading practitioners and consultants, it details:

• Performance-enhancing, cost-effective core stock and bond strategies designed to provide efficient total market exposure
• Satellite investments such as small stocks, hard assets, high-yield debt, and more that enhance returns without adding extraordinary risk
• Best-practices for complying with rules and regulations--summarized from legal standards, professional organizations, and special evaluative studies

Core-satellite portfolios allow fiduciaries to enhance overall performance by adding value from active investment management without deviating from major market movements. Core-Satellite Portfolio Management provides authoritative insights and hands-on techniques for utilizing this extraordinarily effective approach.

Core-Satellite Portfolio Management outlines a portfolio strategy that is ideal for fiduciaries looking to combine the best aspects of active and passive management into a single, successful portfolio management program. It provides a rational framework that efficiently organizes all investment possibilities, allowing clear-cut and frank evaluation of the potential returns and risks of a portfolio.

Core-satellite investing allots a percentage of a portfolio's assets to core investments like blue chip stocks (where prices are competitive and active management has little chance to add value), placing the remainder in satellite investment classes like small stocks or high-yield bonds (where active management can measurably impact performance). The resulting core-satellite portfolio keeps pace with broader market averages, while providing the flexibility necessary to reach financial objectives by earning better-than-market returns.

Chapters written by some of the top practitioners in investing today reveal how investment professionals can:

• Anchor a core component with stock index or exchange traded mutual funds, then round it out with bonds diversified across issuers, sectors, and quality
• Use the return and volatility of alternative asset classes like oil and gas to achieve superior performance
• Use holding analysis and return-based style analysis to detect and remedy style drift when returns have been disappointing
• Measure portfolio performance and risk in innovative ways, including value at risk, the Stutzer Index, and others

Fiduciaries have the difficult responsibility of ensuring that the funds entrusted to them meet the risk and return objectives of both the donor and the beneficiary. Core-Satellite Portfolio Management shows how that responsibility can be met, by providing complete coverage of a core-satellite approach that utilizes state-of-the-art asset allocation strategies, reduces costs, controls risk, and increases liquidity--without sacrificing long-term return.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071413375
• ISBN 13: 9780071413374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400