Multi Asset

Invesco Global Targeted Returns Strategy

Potential stock market volatility, subdued global growth and low interest rates have created challenges for investors hoping to meet target liabilities and funding requirements. Sourcing return opportunities while limiting the potential for losses has seen a growing demand for multi asset strategies.

At a glance

We believe our unconstrained, ideas-based approach offers genuine diversification, which helps spread the overall risk and provides the potential for positive long-term returns.

POTENTIAL FOR POSITIVE TOTAL RETURN

Our approach aims to achieve a positive total return in all market conditions over a rolling three-year period, by pursuing a globally unconstrained opportunity set of ideas.

AIMING TO MITIGATE LOSSES

Embedded in our philosophy and process is strong focus on capital loss mitigation through a robust focus on risk management.

TRUE DIVERSIFICATION

We aim to construct a well-balanced and highly diversified portfolio, which is broadly independent of the direction of traditional asset classes.

Objective

The strategy aims to achieve a positive total return in all market conditions over a rolling three-year period. Specifically, the strategy targets a gross return of 5% per annum above UK 3-month LIBOR (or an equivalent reference rate) and aims to achieve this with less than half the volatility of global equities, over the same rolling three-year period. There is no guarantee that the strategy will achieve a positive return or its target and an investor may not get back the full amount invested.

Investment process

We take a conviction-led approach to sourcing good, long-term thematic investment ideas, using both traditional asset types and derivatives before applying robust risk management to blend these ideas into a truly diversified portfolio, with a clearly defined return and volatility target.

The strategy can have from five up to around 50 diversified investment ideas (typically 20 to 30) accessed through different asset types across the globe.

Every idea in the strategy must pass the team’s rigorous and repeatable three-step investment process, which has risk management embedded:

Investment process
Invesco Global Targeted Returns Strategy

Why Invesco

Invesco has a long history of developing client-driven investment solutions and is synonymous with fundamental, research-driven investing.

Our Henley-based Multi Asset investment team has extensive experience and a proven capability in developing and implementing risk-managed portfolios. It is able to supplement this with Invesco’s rich seam of investment ideas.

The investment team benefits from Invesco’s investment culture of idea sharing, challenge and debate, having access to more than 750 Invesco investment professionals worldwide. Having access to this extensive global network of fund managers and asset class specialists provides the team with a wide range of insights to help with their idea generation process.

  • True diversification: The team doesn’t mind which asset class an investment idea belongs to, believing that a wider range of investment approaches can help remove as many constraints as possible to achieve true diversification.
  • Risk management: Each idea is extensively researched, stress tested, analysed and reviewed to see how it performs under different economic conditions and to assess its impact on overall portfolio risk.
  • Realistic time horizons: Targeted returns are based on an underlying central thesis that each idea has the potential to deliver a positive return over the team’s two- to three-year investment horizon

Investment team

Led by Georgina Taylor in Henley, Invesco’s 15-strong Multi Asset investment team has extensive experience and a proven capability in developing and implementing risk-managed portfolios, with a focus on fundamental, research-driven investing. 

This seasoned team has expertise across the actuarial, economic, fixed income, risk management and multi asset spectrum and enjoys multi-disciplined support from the broader Invesco team.

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Investment risks

  • The value of investments and any income will fluctuate (this may partly be the result of exchange rate fluctuations) and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Changes in interest rates will result in fluctuations in value. The strategy uses derivatives (complex instruments) for investment purposes, which may result in a portfolio being significantly leveraged and may result in large fluctuations in value. The strategy may hold debt instruments which are of lower credit quality which may result in large fluctuations in value.

Important Information

  • Data as at 31st December 2020, unless otherwise stated. By accepting this document, you consent to communicate with us in English, unless you inform us otherwise. Where individuals or the business have expressed opinions, they are based on current market conditions, they may differ from those of other investment professionals and are subject to change without notice.