Asset Allocation Modeling
HWCP has created and maintains a proprietary Dynamic Asset Allocation Model that utilizes state of the art processes in seeking to consistently identify through time the most attractive combination of risk adjusted return opportunities (“The Efficient Frontier”) between and among the fourteen major asset classes identified by HWCP as being a representative and complete sample of the global investment opportunity set. These asset classes are listed below and are in terms of a United States investor:
Domestic Equity: Large Cap, Mid Cap, Small Cap
International Equity: Developed Market, Emerging Market
Equity Like: Commodity, Real Estate
Global Fixed Income (Short Term): Aggregate, High Yield, Inflation Protected
Global Fixed Income (Long Term): Aggregate, High Yield, Mortgage Backed, Inflation Protected
Hybrid/Hedged: Multi-Strategy
Cash
Through the recurring employment of this Model, HWCP will construct a series of customized portfolios corresponding to each of the investor Profiles that are designed to maximize future investment return given the targeted level of acceptable volatility. All Efficient Frontier recalculations will occur on a regular and timely basis and will incorporate HWCP proprietary estimates for both asset class expected return and future asset class correlation. Techniques of portfolio optimization, Monte Carlo simulation, and non-normal curve statistical analysis will be utilized in these efforts.
The "Policy Portfolio" developed for each of the five investor Profiles will not be static in nature, but will instead retain a great deal of flexibility to allow for a more realistic assessment of the prospective return potential through time (on an absolute as well as relative basis) offered by each of the included asset classes utilized in the portfolio construction process.
