There are too many investment managers in the world, and one of our primary tasks is identifying the very slim minority of them that deserve to manage our clients’ assets. In 1991, William Sharpe published The Arithmetic of Active Management, in which he persuasively concluded, because all markets are
Sellwood Consulting’s 2015 Capital Market Assumptions are now available. These 10-year forward looking assumptions of asset class return, risk, and correlation are the key input variables for our client asset allocation work, including mean-variance optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, and risk budgeting.
Our firm and families spent the morning of this year's Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday planting trees. The event, organized by local charity Friends of Trees, saw volunteers plant 500 native trees and shrubs in a local community park.
Rebalancing is a critically important element of portfolio management, but it gets scarcely the attention it deserves. Our research shows that disciplined rebalancing is necessary to maintain a portfolio at its desired risk and return levels – without it, the whims of the market can considerably alter a portfolio’s composition.
