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
- 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, yet are difficult to hedge.
Market volatility, combined with regulation and accounting changes, require plan sponsors to consider not only the return on plan assets, but also the relationship of those returns to plan liabilities to avoid adverse impacts to the company’s financial strength. Asset/liability management, liability driven investments, portable alpha and alternative investments are among the “frontier” investment tools and strategies developed to address these risks. But techniques alone do not constitute solutions; we are prepared to help investors integrate their asset allocation and risk management challenges to form solutions in this changing capital market landscape.
