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Targets
Since 2008 and beyond, we have been focusing our effort on optimizing our way through the still challenging and changing investment environment, implementing the next stage of our accelerated client focused investment strategy. Exploiting market opportunities as they arise and capitalizing in small rebounds from season lows. We aim to achieve profitable growth through monitoring business cycles and an improved business mix with a more conservative risk/return profile. To achieve this, we remain focused on five strategic objectives: Client Focus: We continue to strengthen our client risk exposure model and focus on complex product needs, such as individuals with diverse portfolios, large, mid-sized and small company holdings, day-traders, institutional clients and hedge funds. We have increased our focus on client-driven flow-based trading models. Collaboration: We deliver a unique value to our targeted clients, we encourage close collaboration with our diligent advisors, who provide customized client solutions that will service your investment needs and requirements. Capital and Risk Management: Throughout this financial crisis, a strong capital base and sound liquidity have become a necessity. We advise you on your investment capital in a disciplined manner, assessing your risk ratio to deliver products that will be comfortable to your specific needs, your financial resources can then be mapped out into economic capital framework. We monitor and develop portfolios based upon your capital framework and your desired return goals, to provide you with an individual risk management strategy. People: We continue to undertake significant efforts to attract develop and retain top talent in order to deliver an outstanding integrated value proposition to our clients. We promote cross-divisional and cross-regional career development, as well as lateral recruiting and mobility. We demand the highest ethical standards, consistent with our Code of Conduct. With regard to compensation, we take a prudent and constructive approach, designed to reflect the performance of individuals and the firm and, at the same time, closely align the interests of employees with those of our clients. |
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