- Endowus curates best-in-class funds as building blocks for all portfolios. These funds are selected through a strict, institutional-grade screening process called SMART+.
- We take an evidence-based approach to investing for the highest probability of success, bringing together strategic passive asset allocation and global diversification at a low cost.
- When there is market turmoil, the best investors and fund managers would often focus on their core competencies and continue to invest in a consistent manner.
2022 has been a painful year so far for investors. Returns from both equities and bonds have plunged in lockstep — a rare moment in history — on aggressive action taken by the US Federal Reserve to tame record high inflation through raising rates.
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Given the current state of the markets and the impact on portfolio performance, we would like to share with you what Endowus does to manage portfolios in these volatile times.
Endowus Investment Office: committed to due diligence and client experience
The mission of the Endowus Investment Office (IO) is to unlock institutional-quality research, investment products, and portfolios that were previously only available to private banks, and to provide the same experience to all our clients. Endowus is driven by the belief that everyone deserves to invest well to prepare for their best life.
IO is made up of 10 investment professionals, including our Chairman and Group Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Samuel Rhee. Our IO team together has over 92 years of industry experience, spanning across equity research, portfolio management, and investment research.
Endowus’ approach to portfolio construction is selecting best-in-class fund managers that avoid large sudden changes to their asset allocation, and not try to chase short-term gains. The short-term gain chasing is more akin to gambling than investing as it is tactical, opportunistic, and driven by short-term punts. Taking a tactical approach would mean that the fund manager is not disciplined about the risk of loss, and may be taking on more risk than is necessary.
Instead, Endowus takes an evidence-based approach to investing for the highest probability of success, which brings together strategic passive asset allocation and global diversification, expressed through best-in-class funds, at a low cost. We select these funds by implementing a strict, institutional-grade screening process that is rigorous, thorough, and continuous — we call this framework SMART+.
After we have identified the list of best-in-class funds, IO uses a portfolio construction framework developed by the team, incorporating these key elements:
- Diversification
- Risk assessment
- Return optimisation
- Cost optimisation
The work doesn’t stop after the portfolios have been constructed. We actively track the performance of the funds, and have been doing so rigorously in 2022 amid the market meltdown. To ensure that we communicate actively with our clients, IO engages with investors through regular webinars and monthly (as well as quarterly) performance reports to keep investors updated on how our portfolios are doing.
Such engagements are part of our efforts to report our performance in a transparent way. With our mission focused on broadening access to institutional-quality research and investment solutions to a bigger base of retail clients, we are committed to providing as much information as we can to investors in these difficult times.
These forms of monitoring and engagement by IO come on top of the the different layers of monitoring for the investment products that are already executed on a regular basis:
- Monthly — Every fund on the Fund Smart platform is monitored to make sure that thresholds for risk and return are still being met. Every fund is put on the Fund Smart platform with certain performance expectations, and the team is tasked with making sure those expectations continue to be met within certain thresholds.
- Quarterly — Even with the monthly monitoring for every fund, we believe it is important to ensure that the advised portfolios continue to have the best of our ideas packaged into them. We analyse the sector allocations, country allocations, factor exposures, and tilts of each portfolio to ensure diversification is maintained on all fronts. We review the available funds in each asset class to make sure we continue to allocate to the most appropriate funds for each portfolio.
- Annually — We keep an open dialogue with our fund management partners to make sure we are kept abreast of all the important developments in their organisations and changes in the funds that we have on the platform. We conduct due-diligence calls at least once a year to make sure the funds are being managed in a consistent manner.
The market environment has been challenging for clients and our partners. We continue to maintain a strong line of communication with our fund managers to understand how they are managing their funds through this difficult environment.
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