Global Asset Manager
Manage the Mandate. Build the Portfolio. Explain the Performance.
Global Asset Manager is ACF’s portfolio management simulation for Asset Management, Wealth Management and investment professionals.
Participants manage a portfolio within a defined investment mandate, make asset-allocation and security-selection decisions, respond to changing market conditions and measure performance against an appropriate benchmark.
The simulation is designed to develop not only investment knowledge, but the ability to turn an investment view into a portfolio and explain the results.
Risk, Return, and Benchmark
Portfolio performance only has meaning in context.
Participants can compare results with an appropriate benchmark and examine the relationship between the return they generated and the risks they took to achieve it.
This allows the simulation to explore:
- Asset allocation
- Security selection
- Diversification
- Risk management
- Hedging
- Market exposure
- Relative performance
A strong outcome is therefore not simply a positive return, but a portfolio that performs appropriately against its mandate and benchmark.
Detailed Performance Attribution
One of Global Asset Manager’s strongest features is its detailed performance attribution.
Participants can examine performance at both portfolio and individual asset level, helping them understand where returns came from and which decisions added or detracted value.
This turns the simulation from a simple performance contest into a much richer investment-management exercise.
The key question becomes not only:
“How did the portfolio perform?”
but also:
“Why did it perform that way?”
Team-Based Portfolio Management
Global Asset Manager can be run as a team-based simulation, with participants working together to manage the same portfolio.
Team members can access and manage the portfolio throughout the exercise, encouraging discussion around investment views, risk, conviction and portfolio construction.
This makes the simulation particularly useful for programs where collaboration and communication are part of the learning objective.
Highly Configurable
Global Asset Manager can be adapted to different audiences, investment styles and program objectives.
Scenarios can be configured around:
- Different investor profiles
- Different benchmark
- Varying risk appetites
- Changing market environments
- Investment styles
- ESG requirements
The simulation can therefore support anything from introductory portfolio-management programs to more advanced exercises for experienced investment professionals.
More Than a Portfolio Game
Global Asset Manager is designed to reproduce the disciplines of professional investment management: understand the mandate, construct the portfolio, manage risk, measure performance and explain the result.
