Welcome to our Website
Welcome to our Website
Portfolio Management Service is a tailor-made professional service offered to cater to the investments objective of different investor classes. The Investment solutions provided by PMS cater to a niche segment of clients. The clients can be Individuals or Institutions entities with high net worth. In simple words, a portfolio management service provides professional management of your investments to create wealth.
We turn towards the stock market, expecting to make a fortune. Yet a majority of times, most of the investors are victimized by the emotions of greed and fear. The trouble is that many investors tend to over-diversify their portfolio by adding more stocks, which is likely to take the investor backward rather than forward. Investing is an art form. It takes knowledge about the stock market, but more importantly, it requires a strategy and understanding of the businesses and economic cycles.
Portfolio Management Services (PMS), is an investment management service offered by the Portfolio Manager. The investment portfolio can be diversified into stocks, fixed income, and other structured products. These services can potentially be structured and tailored to meet specific investment objectives based on the risks, rewards, and goals of the investor as reflected in the Investment Policy Statement (IPS). PMS offers customized equity options, but to avail service of a Portfolio manager, you should have a large sum of money to invest (discussed later in the article).
A portfolio manager has a thorough understanding of the businesses and uses it to improve investors' gains. The manager must have clarity of the investor's risk and reward expectations to use an appropriate and suitable strategy in order to deliver high potential returns.
Active Portfolio Management
The active portfolio manager aims to make better returns than the overall markets i.e. to generate Alpha. Higher returns would involve higher than the normal risk in the strategies and therefore, the portfolio manager tries to downsize the risk by diversifying its investments into various asset classes, sectors, and businesses. The turnover of the assets under management is generally high as compared to the Passive style of managing funds.
Passive Portfolio Management
Exactly opposite to the previous type is the Passive style of portfolio management. The portfolio manager generally experiments with the Index funds which have a relatively lower turnover and reasonably decent long-term returns.
Discretionary Portfolio Management
A discretionary manager is given full flexibility to make decisions for the investor. While the individual goals, risk appetite, and time-frame are taken into consideration, the manager adopts the appropriate strategy which he thinks is the best suiting the investment policy statement. The fees for such managed funds are generally higher because of higher involvement in decision-making as well as more efforts by the manager.
Once the cash has been handed to the professional, the investor sits back and trusts that the profits will roll in.
Non-Discretionary Portfolio Management
The non-discretionary manager is more like an advisor than a portfolio manager himself. He advises the investor on which routes are best to take. The risks and rewards are cleared mentioned in the advisory note while the discretion to take action is total with the investor. Only once the manager has been given the go-ahead, the portfolio manager take the appropriate action on the investor's behalf.
The investor and the portfolio manager enter into an agreement detailing the investment strategy, goals, risk appetite in the investment policy statement (‘IPS’). The investor can offer either a sum of up to INR 50 lakhs or stocks worth this much.
A portfolio investment with PMS is just equivalent to buying a phone having a screen protected with tempered glass. Even though the screen is sensitive and prone to breakage with a drop, the tempered glass guards it to reduce its impact on your display. Similarly, the stock market is affected by an economic slowdown and market downturns. Active decision-making by the PMS protects the investor from such falls marginally. Given the benefits of higher returns, diversified portfolio, risk management and customized, there are a few drawbacks of investing with a PMS house too.
At ‘HAPPY 2 INVEST’, we see things that others may overlook and we combine our vast experience from across the world, our intense knowledge of the sector, and distinct insights, to offer our clients profound, strategic solutions.
Copyright © Happy2Investt. All rights reserved.
