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问题如下:
Roggen Family CharitableFoundation (RFCF)’s current portfolio is valued at EUR 250 million, with 50% inequities and 50% in fixed income. The portfolio’s equity holdings are in a fundtracking a broad index of EUR-denominated stocks; the fixed-income holdings arein a fund tracking an all-maturity index of EUR- denominated government bonds.
To betterdiversify the policy asset allocation globally, Loucks specifically recommendsthat Roggen consider adding the following four asset classes:
Non-EUR developed marketequities
Emerging market equities
Broad EUR fixed income, including government and credit
Alternative investments, including real estate, commodities, andprivate equity
Discuss, with two reasons, why the set of six asset classes (current portfolioplus Loucks’ recommendations) for the RFCF policy asset allocation are notappropriately specified.
解释:
There are fivecriteria that should be met for a set of asset classes to be appropriatelyspecified:
Assets within an asset classshould be relatively homogeneous
Asset classes should be mutually exclusive
Asset classes should be diversifying
The asset classes as a group should make up a preponderance of worldinvestable wealth
The asset class should have the capacity to absorb a significantfraction of the investor’s portfolio without seriously affecting the portfolio’sliquidity
Loucks’ set of sixasset classes is not appropriately specified because:
1) Adding broadEUR fixed income exposure violates the second criterion – that asset classesshould be mutually exclusive. RFCF already has exposure to EUR-denominatedgovernment bonds. The broad EUR fixed income exposure contains bothEUR-denominated government bonds and EUR-denominated credit bonds. Thisaddition creates overlap between the existing asset class and the new assetclass.
2) Even if all fourof the recommended asset classes are added, the fourth criterion is notsatisfied: the RFCF portfolio would still not have any exposure to non-EURbonds (and potentially other asset classes).
3) Placing realestate, commodities, and private equity into a single asset class violates thefirst criterion: assets within an asset class should be relatively homogeneous.
老师,能否以size角度分析不适合的原因?因为该基金size是250million,小于500million,属于small institution. 该基金现有组合外,有可能没有足够金额去投资另类,Alternatives are not investable。