AustSafe Super adopts AB overlay strategy
Adopting AllianceBernstein's (AB's) equity risk-management overlay strategy will boost risk-adjusted returns for AustSafe Super members, the fund's chief executive, Craig Stevens believes.
The industry fund announced the decision to use the AB Factor Risk Completion strategy, to improve risk-adjusted returns without reducing the potential to generate alpha.
"By allocating a proportion of our international equities exposure to this overlay strategy, we believe we can improve the management of our equity portfolio without diluting conviction in the underlying investment managers or reducing the return sources we wish to target," Stevens said.
AB chief executive, Australia, Jen Driscoll, said the service applies a disciplined quantitative process combining AB's proprietary risk and alpha models, aiming to reduce the impact of unintended common exposures and asset crowding, and to improve the balance of pay-offs across time-horizons by diversifying risk in a capital-efficient way.
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