Frankfurt am Main, April 21 2020
Portfolio Management team coordinates several asset manager changes for pension funds and trades shares as well as target funds worth EUR 3.6 billion
Demand for transition management services grows by 90 percent: 30 mandates with a volume of EUR 17.2 billion in the past twelve months
In the event of a portfolio transition, Universal-Investment's Portfolio Management acts as a coordinator, trader and supervisory body for the investor, if additional external specialists for trading are involved. The team around Thomas Casper takes over the trading of the existing securities in coordination with the client aynd the old and new asset managers and at the same time buys new securities in order to create the desired target portfolio in the fund. The transaction costs are lower compared to a complete sale and new purchase. Any negative impact on the markets or individual securities, for example when selling large equity positions, is avoided.
"Institutional investors increasingly recognise the value of well-planned, professional transition management when portfolios are to be strategically realigned. As a leading fund servicing company with associated portfolio management, we are ideally positioned to offer this service to our clients, thereby saving them unnecessary costs, risks and any loss of return in the course of restructuring," explains Victor Bemmann, Head of Portfolio Management at Universal-Investment. Over the past twelve months, demand for these services has almost doubled, especially for sophisticated transitions with great complexity.
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