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SELECTING THE PORTFOLIO STRATEGY

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The portfolio strategy selected would have to be in conformity with both the objectives and policy guidelines. Any contradiction here would result in a systems break down and losses.

Let’s consider a person with a job that keeps him busy for 10-12 hours a day, five days of the week. On Saturday he helps the family with household chores. On Sunday he takes the day off and enjoys himself. Now with such a busy life, we cannot expect him to obtain optimal returns from investments in the equity market. Where is the time for thought, analysis and action? He would at best be playing a game of Russian roulette.

For a person with such a busy life schedule it would be best to invest in fixed income securities. These would include RBI bonds, Bank deposits, insurance, etc.

Where there is a lower but assured return. However, if this average, hard working and successful person still wants to invest in the equity market for a relatively higher rate of return. Then he would have to create the time for the thought, analysis and action required for success in this endeavor.

Portfolio strategies are mainly of two types: Active strategies and Passive strategies. Active strategies have a higher expectation about the factors that are expected to influence the performance of the asset class. While Passive strategies involve a minimum expectation input. The latter would include indexing which would require the investor to replicate the performance of a particular index. Between these two extremes we have a range of other strategies which have elements of both active and passive strategies. In the fixed income segment, structured portfolio strategies have become popular. Here the aim would be to achieve a predetermined performance in relation to a benchmark. These are frequently used to fund liabilities.

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