The Windham Portfolio Advisor (WPA) is a complete asset allocation, risk management, and simulation platform designed to assist the most sophisticated investment professionals in the construction of efficient portfolios. Perform complex portfolio analysis using the WPA’s intuitive workflow and implement the latest portfolio construction innovations into your investment process with support from Windham’s experienced client servicing team.
-Generate efficient portfolios that meet your investment goals and satisfy your clients’ constraints. Use the traditional mean-variance approach to optimization or one of the following asset allocation methods exclusive to Windham’s software to address unique investor objectives.
-Realistic estimates for return and risk are critical to the portfolio construction process. Develop sound capital market assumptions for return using CAPM, implied returns, Bayesian analysis (including Black-Litterman) and custom forecasts. Examine how assets behave during specific market environments, including periods marked by turbulence, on a before and after tax basis.
-Windham’s risk management tools assist you in managing the complexities and true sources of portfolio risk so that you can develop portfolios that are based on realistic expectations and a deeper understanding of your risk exposures.
-By simulating growth over time, Windham helps you evaluate the likelihood of meeting future goals and commitments. Windham’s cash flow simulations account for inflation and planned contributions and withdrawals. Projections are expressed in terms of total wealth and as an annuity.
-Factor analysis is a powerful technique that can identify and measure common sources of risk and return for managers, asset classes, and portfolios. Each factor represents an underlying exposure to the market. Factor analysis goes beyond the asset allocation to identify the underlying exposures to specific sources of risk and return. Factor analysis can be used in a variety of applications including:
-Understanding the drivers of manager risk and return
-Understanding the differences between the factor allocation and the asset allocation
-Explaining differences in returns across a universe of financial assets
-Forecasting the expected value of asset returns
-Stress testing asset class returns
