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INVESTMENT STRATEGY AND ASSET MIX ALLOCATION PRINCIPLES

An investment strategy is a set of rules, behaviors or procedures, designed to guide an investor's selection of an investment portfolio. Usually the strategy will be designed around the investor's risk-return tradeoff: some investors will prefer to maximize expected returns by investing in risky assets, others will prefer to minimize risk, but most will select a strategy somewhere in between. Passive strategies are often used to minimize transaction costs, and active strategies such as market timing are an attempt to maximize returns.

Selecting an asset allocation mix for your portfolio GR Group managers proceed from your investment objective and the target yield rate. In order to compile a performing portfolio the manager should find the appropriate asset allocation mix in such way that the relationships of various assets to one another are not too strong and portfolio yields the expected return with minimal value fluctuations. In other words our asset mix should result in the highest capital increase with the lowest possible risks.

The following factors should be taken into account:
  • Target profit
  • Possible risks
  • Assets liquidity
  • Duration of investing
Below we describe our approach to the consolidation of investment portfolio:
  • We pick up asset with sound fundamental indicators ensuring mid-term growth even if the market sees short-term trend deterioration.
  • We do not invest in "bummers" which are likely to drop abruptly in mid- or long-term perspective.
  • We combine trading strategies with various investment horizons.
  • We diversify by industry.
  • We diversify by issuers. GR Group does not invest more than 20% of your portfolio in stocks of one company.
  • We monitor market trends checking whether it is wise to consider portfolio restructuring.
We pick the following asset class for your portfolio:
  • Shares of the major Bahrani companies ("blue chips")
  • Smallcap stocks of developing enterprises with high growth potential
  • Promissory notes issued by major Bahrani companies with good credit history and liquid secondary market
  • Corporate bonds with fixed and/or floating interest rates, whose repayment and interim income payouts incorporate compensation for loss on exchange rate
  • Government bonds placed with discount or coupon bearing bonds
  • Municipal bonds and bonds issued by regional authorities

GR Group offers various investment programs and investment portfolio options dependent on customer's requirements and objectives. We classify these options as "conservative portfolio", "moderately conservative portfolio", "balanced portfolio", moderately aggressive portfolio" and "aggressive portfolio":

Investment objectives

Risk parameters

Portfolio type

Capital preservation
Preservation of initial capital. Given the effect of inflation real return on investment may prove to be insignificant or even negative.

Extremely low risk of losses on investment, while credit risks (borrower's risks) sustain.

Conservative portfolio

Current yield
Capital preservation plus current (regular) yield are important here. Increase of your investment value may be ahead of inflation.

In order to achieve a modest real income flow (adjusted for inflation) the client has to accept an insignificant risk of loss on investment.

Moderately conservative portfolio

Income and value growth
Ongoing cash inflows and increase in assets value. Growth of investment potential value is ahead of inflation.

Average risk level. Non-system risk component is lower due to wide diversification and assets allocation.

Balanced portfolio

Long-term growth
Interest income is not of significant importance. Considerable future gain on investment by far ahead of inflation.

High volatility in the periods of bad market trends. Risk of low returns or temporary losses (on downward trends) while investment value is to grow with time.

Moderately aggressive

Aggressive growth
Investment portfolio is general profit oriented Throughout the market cycle assets growth rates should exceed the market yield rate on the upward trend. Market cap ranges from average to high.

Return on time investment might not live up to your expectations, while absolute profit may prove to be negative. Loss of profits risk is considerably higher than average. Investment period may vary from 3 to 5 years (usually the full market cycle).

Aggressive portfolio

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