Your challenge

A large life insurance company needs to reduce downside risk while still achieving its high return target.

Your portfolio

The existing portfolio allocates heavily to growth assets, which exposes the plan to significant downside risk and market selloffs.

Our solution

Allianz Global Investors demonstrates how an optimised overlay mandate can use a dynamic risk management strategy to mitigate the projected downside risks significantly while maintaining the upside potential of the portfolio’s expected returns.

Our outcome

With an integrated risk management overlay mandate, important risk metrics could be significantly reduced; however return targets would still be met within the client’s risk constraints.

⁵ There is no guarantee that these investment strategies and processes will be effective under all market conditions and investors should evaluate their ability to invest for a long-term based on their individual risk profile especially during periods of downturn in the market.

Your challenge

A mid-size endowment plan is exploring the option of adding illiquid assets to its portfolio. However, the client is not sure how to evaluate and integrate the new asset class.

Your portfolio

The existing portfolio is well-diversified across traditional asset classes merely lacking the diversifying exposure to private markets.

Our solution

Allianz Global Investors identifies the primary challenge of creating a customised private markets asset allocation, together with defining the portfolio design and implementation.

Our outcome

Develop a holistic structure covering the whole private markets investment value chain from asset allocation, products selection, portfolio build-up (J-curve management) and portfolio monitoring.

⁶ There is no guarantee that these investment strategies and processes will be effective under all market conditions and investors should evaluate their ability to invest for a long-term based on their individual risk profile especially during periods of downturn in the market.

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