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  • L'entrée en relation, moment clé entre le banquier privé et son client

    Dans un métier, celui de banquier privé, que caractérisent deux concepts clés « connaissance client » et « sur mesure », le régulateur n’a eu de cesse de mettre à l’épreuve la profession sur son niveau de connaissance avérée de ses clients et de l’inciter à qualifier ces derniers pour mieux les classer dans des profils d’investisseurs très cadrés. C’est dans ce contexte sous contraintes que s’imposent, certes, le besoin d’insuffler une nouvelle dynamique à la protection des investisseurs, mais aussi la nécessité de redonner au banquier privé ses lettres de noblesse afin qu’il puisse exercer à nouveau son métier dans un climat de confiance et d’efficacité.

    La quadrature du cercle pour les banquiers privés dans cet environnement en profonde mutation est de s’adapter aux changements sinon de les conduire, de convertir une obligation de « compliance » en une opportunité commerciale, de transformer la professionnalisation du secteur en une réelle création de valeur, et enfin, d’utiliser les outils modernes en toute transparence et avec leurs clients individuels pour (re)gagner leur confiance.

     

  • Strategic Asset versus Risk-Return Allocation Strategies

    The Strategic/Tactical Asset Allocation Paradigm is naturally related to Modern Portfolio Theory. The recent global financial crisis has emphasized the instability and severity of risks during turbulent market times. As investors care about extreme risks, it is necessary to re-think portfolio management systems in accordance with their risk perception and risk aversion. We propose a new paradigm in which the manager sets a long term strategic risk-return target trade-off with tight risk limits, but very flexible asset allocation constraints. The implementation of this new system, called the strategic global risk-return allocation, is tested live with the Optimized Dynamic Portfolio (ODP), run by Smart Private Managers with the use of the FolioMaster optimization software of Gambit Financial Solutions. The portfolio backtesting shows that the objective of controlling the portfolio risk level is fully achieved. Tactical moves to seize favorable risk-return opportunities are made possible through aggressive portfolio rebalancing. As a result, ODP captures the increase of financial markets but limits its downside risk exposure at times of crises, thereby keeping risk lower than the one of equity markets.

  • Synthetic Risk and Reward Indicator

    With the KID, the new UCITS IV framework brings a useful standardized and simplified scheme to explain the risk of mutual funds to non-professional investors. The Synthetic Risk and Reward Indicator (SRRI) methodology defines how to assess a volatility equivalent for each type of funds, and recognizes the specificities of various types of investment vehicles in the process. But the SRRI methodology does not replace a proper investment profiling system. By forcing any type of risk to be translated into a volatility estimate, the approach overlooks investor's heterogeneity in the definition of risk. The SRRI synthetic approach is powerless to adequately reflect the trade-off between normal and extreme risks the way it is perceived by individual investors. It also misleadingly posits that fund returns are not necessarily related to volatility. We show that the analysis of investor profiles is a necessary complement to the KID in order to provide adequate advice to investors.