The Richmond, UK headquartered business, which is building a strong presence in the Middle East and other international jurisdictions, said the new strategies are available via its private client platform to advisers’ end clients.
Available now, the Macro Multi-Asset Cautious Income, Macro Multi-Asset Balanced and Macro- Multi-Asset Dynamic Growth strategies, are constructed to provide investors with different allocations to assets, depending on their risk profile.
Matt Brittain, portfolio manager and director at ARIA Capital Management, said: “The ARIA Parala Macro Multi-Asset offering is unique because instead of simply diversifying passively across asset classes, a forward-looking investment process is employed which identifies the relationship between macro-economic indicators and investment assets and harnesses this information to build portfolios that are optimally positioned for the current economic environment.
“Moreover, the Macro Multi-Asset portfolios are constructed using highly liquid ETFs, bringing the ability to dynamically change asset allocations yet keeping very attractive expense ratios.”
To construct the strategies, ARIA has partnered with leading macro-economic investment specialist, Parala Capital. The firm focuses solely on macro-economic investing based on the academic research of its founding partners, professors Allan Timmermann and Russell Wermers.
Steven Goldin, managing partner at Parala Capital, explained the duo use “key macro measures to help pinpoint asset class changes and to build portfolios which mitigate the risk of economic shocks by hedging against different but plausible economic scenarios”.
“Our view is that many wealth advisers leave their clients too exposed to potentially big changes in risk levels by only taking a static long-term strategic approach or at the other end of the spectrum, endanger their client's capital by tactically second guessing market direction,” added Goldin.
