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Your Long-Term Strategic Asset Allocation
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Asset Allocation and Currency Management Team
The long-term strategic asset allocation model incorporates the CIBC Asset Management Multi-Asset and Currency Management forward-looking asset class views for the next 10-year period. This is complemented by tactical short-term opportunities aimed at maximizing risk-adjusted return profiles. Your portfolio manager will use this research to guide their decisions surrounding your overall mix.
Portfolio management is both an art and a science and for individual investors it is filled with personal emotion. Behavioral finance studies have shown that investors tend to be influenced by their emotions as well as trends they hear in the media or other sources. By not sticking to a long-term asset allocation approach, investors tend to chase performance within select asset classes, industries or geographies. This type of behaviour has been shown to result in underperformance relative to a more diversified and regularly rebalanced asset allocation over the long term.
Our asset allocation recommendation is based on a three-step process.
First, we establish a global asset allocation model based on traditional asset classes: Canadian money market, Canadian equities, global equities, Canadian fixed income, global fixed income and high yield bonds.
Second, we extend the global model to include a broader asset mix, which is expected to improve the portfolio’s risk-adjusted returns. In addition to the traditional major asset classes, we include real assets, emerging market equities and debt, floating rate loans and multi-sector fixed income. Our recommendations to fund these allocations would come from prior allocations to bonds and equities. The inclusion of result in higher long-term expected return and less risk (as measured by standard deviation).
Lastly, we look at alternative strategies offered through absolute return strategies and private assets to diversify the portfolio or earn a higher return.