1. Active at all stages 2. Comprehensive Diversification 3. Best of Breed 4. Aims for Superior Consistent Returns 5. Long Term Wealth Creation
ING OptiMix products are actively managed every day, at every stage - from asset allocation and style blending to manager selection and allocation.
Simple diversification (allocation of your portfolio over best past performers) is very common, however, as we all know, past performance is no guarantee for the future.
The ING OptiMix investment solution gives you a diversified portfolio across all major asset classes in the Indian investment markets, and the benefit of several investment managers with a high level of expertise in managing money, all within one fund.
We feel diversification protects an investor from being over exposed to one investment process or style. However, there is a point where over-diversification may occur. The level of diversification required to obtain the highest risk-reward relationship varies amongst the asset classes.
The following graph illustrates the diversification principle applied to a portfolio of multiple investment managers
ING OptiMix prides itself on its proprietary processes and software which have been evolved and continuously improved since their inception in 1989. These processes are used to carry out comprehensive research on investment performance, and to be able to continuously invest only in the best of breed managers.
ING OptiMix's approach to investment manager selection involves a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis. This analysis allows "best of breed" investment manager selection within each asset class and as a subset within each investment style employed in each asset class.
Best of breed manager selection is not purely measured by investment performance. Rather it is with consideration to the best blend of investment styles to produce superior, consistent investment returns in the long-term.
Who are the "best of breed" will depend on the asset class. ING OptiMix has the view that the best of breed manager in one asset class many not necessarily be the best of breed manager in all asset classes. Thus by combining the niche skills of best of breed managers within an asset class or a subset of that, within an investment style, ING OptiMix can bring to the investor a fund which is best of breed across all asset classes.
Identification of best of breed managers within an asset class or investment style may also change from time to time, based on:
ING OptiMix schemes aim to produce superior and consistent returns over the long term which are best measured on a rolling twelve month basis.
The objective of ING OptiMix is to achieve superior, consistent long-term returns. This can be defined as achieving first quartile investment returns against the relevant peer group of funds over all rolling 12 month periods. First quartile is defined as the first 25% of peer group funds, which are comparable to the relevant ING OptiMix investment product.
We seek to achieve this through the active ING OptiMix investment process, which blends together investment managers of varying investment styles. As a result investment returns are not subjected to one particular style or process and do not falter when the economic environment is not conducive to one style's potential to add value.
The consistency of returns in the short to medium term derives from the blend of returns of various investment managers. In the long-term this should deliver consistently superior investment returns.
ING OptiMix schemes are not for speculation and are best positioned as the long term core, or backbone of your investment portfolio.
The first and most important lesson of good financial planning is long term wealth creation. Returns compound over the long term, and risk reduces at the same time. However, replicating a process over the long run requires a thorough understanding of its working and a disciplined approach - it is more skill than luck.
Long term wealth creation is best achieved through a professionally managed active portfolio. Direct investing requires skills in selection, market timing, diversification and rebalancing, which could be costly and difficult for investors to pursue on their own. A managed portfolio like a mutual fund offers a professionally managed solution that makes it simpler for an investor to hold a diversified equity portfolio.
The implementation of a long term wealth creation strategy, however, involves selecting a fund that would capture the best, over the long run. ING OptiMix is an ideal long term solution because it specializes in selecting the best funds and managers across market cycles. ING OptiMix is a multi manager solution, which aims to blend together several funds and actively manage them for consistent returns, wrapping them into a single product.
The ability to own a single fund, rather than multiple funds that have to be rebalanced on your own using your skills, also brings with it significant cost and tax efficiency. If an investor were to move in and out of funds from time to time, charges/load need to be paid and capital gains taxes may be crystallized on exit. However when the provider of a multi manager solution makes such changes in the fund managers underlying the solution, such a change neither triggers extra costs nor taxes for the investor.
Investors can then remain passive investors, while the multi manager fund is actively managing the portfolio. This strategy would add value consistently over the long run. Multi manager solutions are best positioned as the core of an investor's portfolio, as part of a well designed and well constructed financial plan for long term wealth creation.