Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions
Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions
Creative Solutions for Clients
To meet clients’ evolving needs with precision and effectiveness, ING founded the ING Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions (MASS) Group. We manage multi-asset portfolios from target date retirement funds and total plan discretionary asset management programs, to complex portfolios that improve the correlation of assets to liabilities in a variety of strategies to match plan sponsors’ circumstances and constraints.
To deliver actionable and effective custom solutions to complex problems, the MASS Group draws upon a wide array of ING capabilities.
- Over 150 well-diversified sources of alpha from around the globe
- Robust asset allocation framework and modeling techniques
- Pension liability management expertise
- Sophisticated risk management and hedging techniques
- Ability to structure and implement guarantees
- Skill and scale in derivatives management
New Markets, New Risks, New Challenges
The world has changed in the last twenty years. Economies and financial markets are more closely connected. Capital flows more freely across borders, and risks that were once confined to nations or regions can spread rapidly throughout the world.
In this new environment, the lessons and methods of the past are unlikely to be sufficient to predict, manage or avoid the financial risks of the future. Many investors find themselves exposed to risks for which they receive little compensation in taking, yet are difficult to hedge.
Pension regulations and accounting changes require plan sponsors to consider not only the return on plan assets, but also the correlation of those returns to plan liabilities in order to ensure they do not adversely impact the company’s financial strength. Asset/liability management, alternative investments, liability driven investments and portable alpha are among the “frontier” investment techniques that have been developed to help address these new risks. But techniques alone do not constitute solutions. Investors need globally integrated asset allocation programs and comprehensive risk management solutions to meet the challenges of this changing capital market landscape.
