Families continue to seek a better way of communicating performance results so that end users can gain a thorough understanding of the impact of strategic asset allocation, rebalancing, tactical shifts, and individual manager results and other performance measures. Critical to the success of such reporting is starting the performance discussion at the overall relationship level, and as such, Tania and Doug will share the seven essential elements or questions the investor needs to ask and have answered.
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Liquid Alternatives and the Investment Spectrum
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Liquid Alternatives have risen in popularity for family offices and families as they increasingly bring these vehicles to supplement their alternative allocations. Packaging and delivery of these return streams have been brought to market in the form of Alternative '40 Act Funds or Alternative Private Investment Partnerships. Do these innovative liquid vehicles deliver on their return expectations and alpha generation? How can they work in tandem with other more traditional investment vehicles?
Invest with Purpose
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Over the past several years, investors have experienced a challenging investment environment. We believe a key element in building a sustainable investment strategy is to “invest with purpose” and the first step in doing so is to understand exactly what each investor is trying to achieve with their wealth. This paper highlights and delves into GenSpring’s unique goals-based investing process which we believe can provide investors with the foundation to build a disciplined long-term strategy that can be maintained under a variety of market conditions.
Welcome to the Era of Innovation
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We’re in the early stages of what stands to be an extended business cycle. We’re calling the cycle the era of innovation, and it has some definite characteristics. We’re seeing aggressive technological advancement, a manufacturing renaissance, easier access to liquidity and cash-rich entities spanning the globe, supply-demand mismatches in key industries, and lower barriers for entry for startups. Major advances are underway in areas like robotics, 3D printing, cloud computing, big data, mobile payment systems, medical technologies, energy and many others.
Healthcare Investments in a Divided World
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In terms of life of life span and medical need, a close look at the underlying numbers reveals a sharp disparity between developed and developing regions; particularly in poorer areas worldwide. Some differences are so stark, in fact, that there is what might be called a global healthcare divide. And for investors it’s a division worth understanding.
Investment advisers often contract with subadvisers to obtain special investment expertise and sometimes outsource important operations or compliance-related functions to service providers. Outsourcing often provides cost-effective solutions but comes with its own compliance obligations, notably initial and on-going due diligence.
Employee Stock Ownership Plans Offer Many Advantages
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Employee Stock Ownership Plans, or ESOPs, have been used as succession planning tools for family-owned businesses for 40 years. Ownership succession planning is critically important in a family-owned business. There are many issues to review in succession planning and an ESOP should always be considered. An ESOP may be the ideal solution for the corporation and its shareholders
The UK has delivered a remarkable cyclical upswing over the past year; with GDP growing at an average pace of over 3% annualised growth for 5 quarters in a row. This has been the result of extraordinary policy support both on the monetary side (low base rate policy and quantitative easing) and fiscal policy (smaller fiscal drag, Help to Buy scheme), which together with fading risks surrounding the Eurozone, provided a powerful boost to confidence, which helped to kick-start the economy.
Putting "Energy" into an Investment Strategy
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This white paper reviews how the new landscape of energy in the U.S. is changing the national discourse on energy independence, influencing our economic recovery and offering opportunities for discriminating investors.
Echoes of 2007
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The big difference between 1999, 2007, and today is the lack of a fundamental trigger to upset the apple cart. The current environment is potentially more dangerous and more durable than the prior two periods.