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Goals-Based Wealth Management In Practice
CFA Wealth Management Conference 2011 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
September 20-21, 2011
Jean L. P. Brunel, CFA Chief Investment Officer, GenSpring Family Offices
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Three Main Points
1. A different environment
2. Process architecture
3. Managing the process
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A Different Environment
The world has changed and clients are asking for different solutions…
• 2008 meltdown changed investors
– not a cyclical event
– disappointed return expectations
– illiquidity surprises
– no diversification when it was needed
• Das, Markowitz, Scheid & Statman [2010]
– hitherto debate on optimality
– academic imprimatur
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Process Architecture
• Integrated wealth planning
• Goals-based asset allocation in practice
• A practical model
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Integrated Wealth Planning
Wealth management brings multiple disciplines together…
• Describing investors goals
– Estate, financial, philanthropic, investment
– Understanding asset location
• What matters to the family
• Identify the worst nightmares
– Changing one’s lifestyle
– Failing descendants
• Identify the most cherished dreams
– Personal, dynastic or philanthropic
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Goals-Based Allocation in Practice
• The starting point – behavioral portfolio
• The first iteration
• A new iteration:
– Three sequential branches
– Multiple questions
– Several feedback loops
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Three Fundamental Goals…
HNW investors usually have three distinct generic goals that compete for their attention…
• Personal:
– Meet current and unanticipated needs
– Maintain future flexibility
• Dynastic:
– How much should my children get?
– What about generations beyond them?
• Philanthropic:
– Active or passive philanthropy
– Philanthropy as a family value
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The Behavioral Finance Portfolio
Dynastic
Passive Philanthropy
Changes in dynastic lifestyle and active
philanthropy
Lifestyle
Shelter & Food
This design, initially proposed by Meir, Statman, illustrates the fact that we have different views of risk for different goals…
Dynastic
Philanthropic
Flexibility
Personal
Aggressive Strategies
Balanced Growth Portfolio
Balanced Portfolio
Tax-efficient, conservative portfolio.
Risk taken only to preserve long-term
purchasing power
Investment Risk
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The First Iteration…
Describe the main goals of our
investor
Dollar weigh and prioritize these
goals
Structure a sub-portfolio for each
goal
Optimize portfolios across
the whole
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A New Iteration…
Experience suggested the need for further refinement to recognize families’ special issues and their main nightmares…
Family Assets
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A New Iteration…
The first step is to distinguish between internally and externally managed family assets
Family Assets
Internal External
Controlled by family & managed through external managers
Controlled & managed by the
family
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A New Iteration…
Within the internal asset category, one can further look into the risk associated with individual pools of assets …
Family Assets
Internal External
Cap. Pres. Growth
Low risk, income
producing
Family business ventures
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A New Iteration…
The second step involves isolating the assets needed to meet the family’s lifestyle …
Family Assets
Internal External
Cap. Pres. Growth Lifestyle Non L.S.
Declining balance
portfolios
Assets not currently needed
to support lifestyle
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A New Iteration…
Within the lifestyle assets, one needs to distinguish between short- and medium-term assets as inflation affects them differently …
Family Assets
Internal External
Cap. Pres. Growth Lifestyle Non L.S.
Short term:
3-5 years
Long term: 6-15 years
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A New Iteration…
The third step is to uncover the family’s needs beyond life style …
Family Assets
Internal External
Cap. Pres. Growth Lifestyle Non L.S.
Short Term
Long Term
Cap Pres.
Growth
Other
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Why Seek or Avoid Growth?
One should not simply assume that a family SHOULD seek growth because it has been the norm hitherto …
• Unexpected inflation
• Lifestyle changes
• Generational fragmentation
• Mission related investing
• Decision risk minimization: scorekeeping
• Other …
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A New Iteration…
Within the non-lifestyle dedicated assets, it is still important to understand differences and specify what is needed and how …
External
Lifestyle Non L.S.
Short Term Long Term Cap
Pres.
Nominal or Real?
Liquid or Less?
What? How?
Growth Other
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A Practical Model…
• The fundamental concept:
– The advisor is a TRANSLATOR.
– The family expresses goals in its own language.
– The advisor translates them into financial and investment language.
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A Few Initial Caveats
Like any model, it is important to understand capabilities and limitations …
• Key assumptions must make sense
• Avoid determinism
• Promote discussion of trade-offs
• Provide sufficient feedback loops
• Protect against misunderstandings
• Stay humble and flexible
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Key Assumptions and Inputs
The process starts with the crucial inputs, which combine generic and highly personal family data…
• Capital markets assumptions
• Financial asset totals
• Current lifestyle needs
• Anticipated lifestyle inflation
• Life expectancy of principals
• Asset holding structures
• Any other issue?
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Key Case Assumptions…
• A family with financial assets of $35 million
• Current annual spending $1 million
• No internally generated income
• G1 aged around 50
• Inflation expected around 3%
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Separating Internal & External Assets
• Internal capital preservation: $2 million
– Apartment complex with rental income
• Internal growth: $1 million
– Venture capital start-up
– Managed by member of G2
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Assessing Lifestyle Needs …
• First 5 years: $4.7 million
– Return assumption: 4%
• Next 10 years: $7.2 million
– Return assumption: 6%
• Feedback loop
– $11.9 million is less than total assets
– Family is comfortable with findings
• Plan on replenishing as appropriate
– To maintain the 15-year horizon
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Dealing With What is Left…
• Additional lifestyle goal
– Provide for at least another 15 years
• Opportunistic goal
– Reserve 10% of portfolio for themes
• Growth goal
– Provide for dynastic and philanthropic goals
– Maintain adequate liquidity
– Do not over-commit to private equities
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Personal Goal Summary
Amount ($000) Share of Total
ST Lifestyle 4,716 13.5%
LT Lifestyle 7,206 20.6%
Lifestyle Refills 7,653 21.9%
Low Tolerance for Losses 0 0.0%
Capital Growth 8,925 25.5%
Internal Investments 3,000 8.6%
Thematic Needs 3,500 10.0%
Total 35,000 44.1%
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Creating the Policy Portfolio…
The process involves the interaction of two important components
• Individual sub-portfolios
– Solely driven by client goals
– Sized by translating client needs
– Unique combination for each individual
• Sub-portfolios constructed through modules:
– Modules are driven by return/risk profile
– Modules are matched to individual goals
– Client preferences integrated in process
• Each client portfolio is unique
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Resulting Portfolio - $ Amounts Tax-Aware 4,716 5,765 6,033 3,061 3,500 5,425 3,500 2,000 1,000 35,000
MT LT Liquid LT Oppor- Policy
ST LT CP CP Growth Growth -tunistic CP Growth Total
Cash
U.S. Municipal Bonds Inv. Grade 2,806 2,450 1,026 390 6,672
EAFE Fixed Income Hedged 495 432 181 69 1,177
U.S. Municipal Fixed Income HY 424 519 633 230 53 1,859
EM Debt
Non-Directional Hedge 990 1,211 1,478 536 123 4,337
U.S. Equities 193 233 532 825 1,782
EAFE Equities 193 233 532 825 1,782
EM Equities 97 116 266 412 891
Directional Hedge Eq L/S 422 643 1,470 2,278 4,814
Private Equity 814 814
MLPs 692 543 92 1,327
REITs 461 362 61 884
Commodities
Global Macro 452 230 263 136 1,080
Managed Futures 452 230 263 136 1,080
Opportunistic Themes 3,500 3,500
Internal Capital Preservation 2,000 2,000
Internal Growth 1,000 1,000
Total 4,716 5,765 6,033 3,061 3,500 5,425 3,500 2,000 1,000 35,000
Lifestyle
Non-Lifestyle
Internal
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Resulting Portfolio - % Share Tax-Aware 4,716 5,765 6,033 3,061 3,500 5,425 3,500 2,000 1,000 35,000
MT LT Liquid LT Oppor- Policy
ST LT CP CP Growth Growth -tunistic CP Growth Total
Cash
Fixed Income and Related 100.0% 80.0% 55.0% 40.0% 5.0% 40.1%
U.S. Municipal Bonds Inv. Grade 59.5% 42.5% 17.0% 12.8% 19.1%
EAFE Fixed Income Hedged 10.5% 7.5% 3.0% 2.3% 3.4%
U.S. Municipal Fixed Income HY 9.0% 9.0% 10.5% 7.5% 1.5% 5.3%
EM Debt
Non-Directional Hedge 21.0% 21.0% 24.5% 17.5% 3.5% 12.4%
Public Equity and Related 15.0% 40.0% 80.0% 80.0% 26.5%
U.S. Equities 3.2% 7.6% 15.2% 15.2% 5.1%
EAFE Equities 3.2% 7.6% 15.2% 15.2% 5.1%
EM Equities 1.6% 3.8% 7.6% 7.6% 2.5%
Directional Hedge Eq L/S 7.0% 21.0% 42.0% 42.0% 13.8%
Private Equity 15.0% 2.3%
Equity and Related 15.0% 40.0% 80.0% 95.0% 28.8%
Real Assets and Related 20.0% 30.0% 20.0% 15.0% 5.0% 12.5%
MLPs 12.0% 9.0% 3.0% 3.8%
REITs 8.0% 6.0% 2.0% 2.5%
Commodities
Global Macro 7.5% 7.5% 7.5% 2.5% 3.1%
Managed Futures 7.5% 7.5% 7.5% 2.5% 3.1%
Opportunistic 100.0% 10.0%
Opportunistic Themes 100.0% 10.0%
Internal Assets 100.0% 100.0% 8.6%
Internal Capital Preservation 100.0% 5.7%
Internal Growth 100.0% 2.9%
Total 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Lifestyle
Non-Lifestyle
Internal
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Goals-Focused Modules
• The set must cover all categories of needs
• Contiguous modules: sufficiently different
• Individual modules: as optimal as feasible
• At least four families of modules:
– Tax-aware with non-traditional strategies
– Tax-agnostic with non-traditional strategies
– Tax-aware with only traditional strategies
– Tax-agnostic with only traditional strategies
• Must leave room for flexibility
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Managing the Process
• Superficially complex
– Unique portfolio for each family or client
– Potentially as many benchmarks as clients
• Practically simpler than it looks
– Goal modules: common across platform
– Thus, room for standardization
• Essentially amounts to “mass customization”
– Complexity is where it belongs
– Leverage across investment management
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In Short, Three Main Points
• A different environment
– 2008 changed needs and market opportunities
– A new academic validation
– Goals-based wealth management: new normal
• Process architecture
– Builds on existing concepts
– Three-step process
• Managing the process
– Allows mass customization
– A number of practical issues remain
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Limits of the Process
• Selected client preferences
– Asset class or strategy preferences
– Must be prepared to deal with exceptions
• Path dependency
– Transitioning a pre-existing portfolio
– Dealing with concentrated positions
• Investment reporting complexity
– Selected strategies in more than one module
– The correct use of benchmarks
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The information contained herein is obtained from sources that are believed to be reliable and is provided for reference purposes only and no representation is made as to its accuracy. It should not be construed as legal or tax advice and should not be used as a substitute for the advice of a professional legal or tax advisor. The information is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities. Such an offer will only be made to qualified investors by means of a private placement memorandum and related subscription documents. Please consult your GenSpring Family Offices representative for additional information.
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Goals-Based Wealth Management In Practice
CFA Wealth Management Conference 2011 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
September 20-21, 2011
Jean L. P. Brunel, CFA Chief Investment Officer, GenSpring Family Offices