1. Portfolio Management Unit – 1 Session No.3 Topic: Portfolio Management Process Unit – 1 Session No.3 Topic: Portfolio Management Process

2. Session Plan Recap the Previous Session What is Execution Step? – Portfolio Selection – Portfolio Optimization – Tactical Asset Allocation – Transaction Costs What is Feedback Step? – Monitoring and rebalancing, and – Performance evaluation.

3. What is the need for investment objectives? Give an example for Internal and External Constraints. What is IPS? How the investment strategies broadly categorized? What is the need for the forming capital expectations? What is Asset Allocation? Recap

4. What is Execution Step? Representation of ‘‘portfolio construction and revision’’ Manager integrates investment strategies with capital market expectations to select the specific assets for the portfolio (the portfolio selection/composition decision). Portfolio managers initiate portfolio implementation decision.

5. What is Execution Step? Portfolio Selection

6. What is Execution Step? Portfolio Selection

7. What is Execution Step? Portfolio optimization Quantitative tools for combining assets efficiently to achieve a set of return and risk objectives—plays a key role in the integration of strategies with expectations

8. What is Execution Step? Tactical asset allocation A strategy of strategic asset allocation It responds to changes in short-term capital market expectations rather than to investor circumstances. (Desire to achieve short term profits)

9. What is Execution Step? Transaction costs All costs of trading, including explicit transaction costs, implicit transaction costs, and missed trade opportunity costs. – Explicit transaction costs - include commissions paid to brokers, fees paid to exchanges, and taxes. – Implicit transaction costs - include bid-ask spreads, the market price impacts of large trades – Missed trade opportunity costs arising from price changes that prevent trades from being filled, and – Delay costs arising from the inability to complete desired trades immediately due to order size or market liquidity.

10. What is Feedback Step? Two components: – Monitoring and rebalancing, and – Performance evaluation.

11. What is Feedback Step? Monitoring and rebalancing – feedback to manage ongoing exposures to available investment opportunities – client’s current objectives and constraints continue to be satisfied. Two types of factors are monitored: – investor-related factors such as the investor’s circumstances, and – economic and market input factors

12. What is Feedback Step? Investor Circumstances factors Portfolio managers need a process in place to stay informed of changes in clients’ circumstances Termination of Plan, Death of Investor, client’s time horizon and tax concerns Economic and market input factors Portfolio managers need to systematically review the risk attributes of assets. asset price changes occur, revisions in market, specific rules, deviation from the strategic asset allocation

13. What is Feedback Step? Rebalancing – To bring the portfolio back into compliance with investment policy Rebalancing decision is a crucial one that must take into account many factors, – transaction costs and taxes (for taxable investors). Disciplined rebalancing will have a major impact on the attainment of investment objectives. – Rebalancing takes us back to the issues of execution, as is appropriate in a feedback process..

14. What is Feedback Step? Performance Evaluation – Periodical Evaluation of investor to assess progress – To achieve the investment objectives as well as to assess portfolio management skill Three Components: – Performance measurement – Performance attribution – Performance appraisal

15. What is Feedback Step? Performance measurement It involves the calculation the portfolio’s rate of return Performance attribution It examines why the portfolio performed as it did and involves determining the sources of a portfolio’s performance Performance appraisal It examines why the portfolio performed as it did and involves determining the sources of a portfolio’s performance

16. Definition of Portfolio Management Portfolio management is an ongoing process in which: – Investment objectives and constraints are identified and specified. – Investment strategies are developed. – Portfolio composition is decided in detail. – Portfolio decisions are initiated by portfolio managers and implemented by traders. – Portfolio performance is measured and evaluated. – Investor and market conditions are monitored. – Any necessary rebalancing is implemented.

17. Summarizing What is Portfolio Optimization? What is Explicit and Implicit Costs? What is monitoring in Portfolio management Process? How to rebalance? What are the three components used in assessment of portfolio management? Why investment decisions are important in selection of portfolio?

18. Assignment Prepare a detailed diagrammatical representation for Portfolio Management Process