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Mirroring the
Performance of Top
Investment Managers
To achieve steady growth, private wealth
managers have to pick money managers with a
history of low maximum drawdowns, says Asheesh
Advani, Chief Executive Officer of Covestor.
Unfortunately, the industry is missing a real sense
of accountability and transparency with regard to
returns, so private wealth managers are making
some of their manager selection decisions with
their eyes half closed. The Covestor platform could
be part of the solution, according to Advani.
Covestor attended the recent IFG Wealth
Management Forum 2013. Here, Advani describes
Covestor’s platform and how it addresses issues
troubling the private wealth management industry.
IFG - How can private wealth managers achieve
steady growth that outperforms the S&P 500?
Advani - My recommendation is to focus on picking
managers who have a history of low maximum
drawdowns. It is simple math. When the market is
in deep decline, it is easy to dig yourself into a hole
that is hard to come out of. Losing 30 per cent of a
$10 million portfolio in a rough patch means you
will need a 42 per cent gain just to break even.
With an average of six per cent gain a year, you will
need six years to get back to where you were.
IFG - Tell us more about the Covestor platform
and what issues it addresses.
Advani - We are a marketplace for money
management talent. Covestor allows investors to
shop for money managers, based on the metrics
they consider important.
Wealth managers have tried to come up with their
own solutions to the accountability problem, with
seeding programs for example, but we have
accelerated that and made it much easier and
cheaper for them to access the information they
need. They can now compare managers with the
metrics they want and get access to top managers
they would not have found on their own.
IFG - What metrics should private wealth
managers look for?
Advani - Everyone has a different set of goals and
investment philosophies, so we try to provide
many metrics of value. We have volatility and
performance measures, including verified
historical performance metrics. This might be an
obvious one, but I am always amazed when a
portfolio is presented as having beaten the
markets by a certain date, when the story is
different if the date is changed. It is important to
check how a manager has performed relative to
the market or benchmark on different dates.
IFG - What are the benefits of synched co-
investing?
Advani - Our technology allows private wealth
managers to replicate the trading activities of
professional and experienced individual investors
in real time. In order to succeed, a portfolio
Interview with: Asheesh
Advani, Chief Executive
Officer, Covestor
Asheesh Advani, Chief
Executive Officer of
Covestor, discusses how
private wealth managers
can overcome the
difficulties of selecting
investment managers.
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manager should be good at presenting himself to the industry, but many of the best investors are not good at doing so. We give
wealth managers access to these people, who can focus more on investing than on selling themselves to raise capital.
Salpi Balian
Press Manager – IFG
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About Covestor
Covestor brings the clarity and efficiency of an online marketplace to the world of money management. Investors can compare and
select from a transparent marketplace of money management talent that includes top performing portfolio managers and successful
investors. Covestor’s Portfolio Sync technology automatically replicates trades, providing clients the convenience of “set and forget”
functionality and the protection of Covestor’s proprietary trade filtering.
For more information: www.covestor.com
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