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Insights and strategies for hedge fund success in a dynamic market
UBP’s Alternative Investment Solutions team has reported strong performances for Q3 2025 and here share their strategic insights for Q4 and beyond.
Mastering multi-asset strategies
Navigate complex markets through UBP's expertly curated multi-fund strategies.
In a world of ever-shifting market dynamics, the key to multi-asset investing hinges on the skilful selection and blending of top third-party managers. At UBP, this has been our core competency for over twenty years. Our seasoned investment professionals, with their deep understanding of the market, employ a rigorous proprietary process to identify and combine best-in-breed funds, crafting diversified portfolios tailored to your objectives.
The potential of multi-asset investments
Are you searching for opportunities? We uncover them.
Diversify risk exposure across a spectrum of asset classes
Gain access to specialist managers in each market segment
Enhance returns through astute manager selection and style combinations
Our differentiated investment approach
Expect guidance? We deliver expertise.
Our conviction-driven approach is anchored in meticulous bottom-up fund selection. Each third-party fund must go through our proprietary screening methodology before earning a place in our concentrated, high-conviction portfolios. This rigorous process emphasises transparency, consistency, and alignment of interests, ensuring we construct long-only, balanced solutions adapted to our clients' risk profiles.
Ready to elevate your investment strategy with a multi-asset approach?
Engage with our specialists to explore solutions tailored to your unique goals.
Exploiting the potential of active management
- Quantitative screening: Our proprietary scoring model filters a vast universe of funds, assessing risk-adjusted performance, return consistency, and market capture.
- Qualitative due diligence: We examine a refined set of funds, scrutinising the investment team, process, transparency, and capacity.
- Complementary style blending: We match managers with distinctive and synergistic characteristics to optimise diversification and return potential.
- Alpha-focused approach: We prioritise best-in-class manager selection over short-term tactical allocation to drive long-term outperformance.
Our UBAM strategies
Our flagship multi-asset suite
“Manager selection is a combination of art and science, and that’s precisely why our process combines quantitative tools with qualitative assessments: a good manager is not a one-man show, but rather the virtuous convergence of several aspects; in the team we call it the ‘ecosystem’.”
Investor insights
Frequently asked questions about multi-asset investing
Consistent long-term outperformance is rare. Even skilled managers may need additional resources to develop new strategies or expand into new markets. Our manager selection process is fortified by extensive experience and robust data, giving us a distinct advantage in identifying managers with the potential to deliver sustained results. To maintain a high-quality multi-manager portfolio, we conduct regular reviews using the following approach:
- Engage directly with managers to thoroughly understand their strategies and operating environment.
- Perform in-depth fundamental analysis, leveraging public information, proprietary databases, and our extensive experience with similar managers in each asset class.
- Foster a collaborative team structure to share insights and knowledge efficiently.
Multi-fund solutions provide investors with a diversified approach to investing. By spreading capital across a range of funds covering various asset classes, sectors, and geographies, multi-fund portfolios can help mitigate the risk of any single investment underperforming. This diversification effect can smooth out returns over time and reduce overall portfolio volatility compared to more concentrated holdings.
A multi-fund solution typically comprises a mix of fund types: equity funds for capital growth, bond funds for income and stability, and money market funds for liquidity. The portfolio may also include sector-specific funds to target particular industries or themes and alternative funds to access non-traditional asset classes. The precise blend of funds will be tailored to the individual investor's objectives and risk profile, aiming to optimise long-term risk-adjusted returns through adequate diversification.
While all investments involve some level of risk, multi-fund solutions can offer a more moderate risk profile than single-fund investments. By diversifying across multiple funds, asset classes, and investment strategies, multi-fund portfolios aim to mitigate the impact of underperformance in any one area. This diversification effect can lead to smoother overall returns and reduced volatility. However, it's important to note that the specific risk profile will depend on the individual funds selected and the overall portfolio construction.
Meet the team
A cohesive team of seasoned professionals across Europe and Asia helms UBP's Multi-Funds and Fund Research franchise.
Your contact
Didier Chan Voc Chun, Head of Multi MGT & Fund Research
Key facts and figures
- Over USD 15 billion in multi-asset portfolios and active recommendations
- Consistent philosophy and process applied across all strategies by all portfolio managers and analysts
- 100+ years of collective team experience with minimal turnover
- Proven track record of active, fundamental investing since 2011
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