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Investment Reports

Our portfolio and fund performance analysis reports are tailored to suit your requirements whether that be in-house monitoring, board reports or end clients. We are experts at benchmarking returns and providing analysis against risk - making risk concepts easy to understand and to communicate - all to ensure that you act on time for the benefit of your clients.

FGC can provide on-going monitoring, one off heath checks and reviews and help to improve your existing reporting.

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• Effective dashboards and fund reports <br> are created by careful selection of reports <br> to meet client requirements.	• Much financial analysis assumes so-called ‘normally <br> distributed’ (or Gaussian) returns, in practice <br> fund and benchmark return distributions often <br> differ significantly from this leading to unrealistic <br> assumptions and unexpected ‘black swan’ events. <br> • By examining the returns to see how they differ <br> from a Gaussian distribution the assessment <br> of past risks is more realistic, and more appropriate <br> historical performance measures can be adopted.	• When comparing historical returns with a <br> selected benchmark or cash returns, it is useful to be <br> able to visualise not only the average returns over <br> some period, but also the degree of spread.<br> • Such approaches give an instant overview of <br> both average return and variability over the period <br> of interest.
• Correlations between assets and the selected <br> benchmarks give a useful initial guide to assessing <br> potential diversification within a portfolio or similarity to <br> a benchmark.	• Rather than relying solely on commonly used <br> measures of risk such as volatility, which have known<br> flaws, historical risk can also be assessed in<br> terms of losses made using drawdown and other <br> related measures.	• Investment monitoring is an active and ongoing <br> process<br> • Key to success is correct calculation, <br> selection of appropriate reports, benchmarks, and <br> a review process that highlights and draws attention <br> to outliers in order that matters requiring attention are <br> actively acted upon
• Overview of fund (or portfolio) performance<br> over the period of interest.<br> • Comparison with a benchmark index (BM) <br> and risk-free cash returns.<br> • Typically using total returns to capture <br> reinvested income in addition to capital growth.	• Regression techniques can be used to deduce <br> the ‘behaves-like’ characteristics of a fund or <br> portfolio based on readily available historical <br> returns. <br> • These permit an evolving picture over time<br> of fund characteristics which can be used to test <br> or challenge manager assertions.	• Collections of funds or portfolios can be <br> analysed to compare historical performance <br> over a period of interest.<br> • Here, the plot reveals both average returns and <br> their spread, adding a sense of return variability to<br> the comparison. <br> • The shapes outline the historical return <br> distributions, providing additional information <br> on the funds’ historical returns.
• The risk and return characteristics of a group<br> of funds or portfolios can be visualised with a risk-return<br> chart. <br> • The return-per-unit-risk characteristics <br> of the funds can be compared with a selected index <br> and risk-free cash rate. <br> • Dashed lines indicate average returns <br> for the benchmark and the fund group, as well as <br> the average volatility for the benchmark and the <br> fund group.	• A Markowitz optimised efficient frontier gives <br> a sense of the theoretically possible range of <br> outcomes (solid blue and dashed lines), although <br> practical portfolio constraints may restrict <br> actual outcomes. In this example the opportunity <br> set encompassed by the Markowitz frontier is <br> enlarged by the inclusion of the benchmark <br> as an asset (solid blue line), potentially of interest if <br> an asset that tracks the benchmark index is<br> available.

Investment Reports

• Effective dashboards and fund reports <br> are created by careful selection of reports <br> to meet client requirements.

• Correlations between assets and the selected <br> benchmarks give a useful initial guide to assessing <br> potential diversification within a portfolio or similarity to <br> a benchmark.

• Rather than relying solely on commonly used <br> measures of risk such as volatility, which have known<br> flaws, historical risk can also be assessed in<br> terms of losses made using drawdown and other <br> related measures.

• Overview of fund (or portfolio) performance<br> over the period of interest.<br> • Comparison with a benchmark index (BM) <br> and risk-free cash returns.<br> • Typically using total returns to capture <br> reinvested income in addition to capital growth.