Videos and Multimedia

Nikki Kraus, Global Head of Client Development and James Robertson, Managing Director, Client Development, share their observations on the sleight of hand tricks used by some OCIO providers to win business.

Nikki Kraus, Managing Director, Global Head of Client Development, Josh O’Brien, Managing Director, Investment Operations and special guest, David Spaulding, Founder and CEO of The Spaulding Group, address common misconceptions.

Markus Krygier, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and David J. Ordoobadi, Managing Director and Economic Counsellor, explore the outlook for 2019 and discuss the key questions that investors should focus on in the rest of the year.

The Outsourced CIO industry has been expanding rapidly, in terms of the number and types of participants and provider and it is becoming increasingly necessary to provide greater uniformity in the way that providers report performance.

We appear to be at the cusp of a shift from deflationary fears to reflationary hopes, with markets poised for an uptick in global economic growth and inflation. However, with policy uncertainty high and market valuations full, investing in 2017...

Hear from our senior leadership about what makes Strategic special.

Strategic’s leadership discusses the advantages of outsourcing, and how it provides an opportunity to optimize outcomes.

Strategic’s senior investment team discusses our innovative investment process and disciplined, robust approach to risk management.

Nikki Kraus, Global Head of Client Development, explains how Strategic works with clients to determine their goals, objectives, and risk tolerance.

Brian Murdock, President and CEO, discusses Strategic’s excellence.

We explore the outlook for 2016 and discuss Strategic’s investment strategy for the upcoming year.

In 2015 the U.S. Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years. While investors have been anticipating this move for some time, its impact on global markets remains uncertain.

Implementing extension strategies requires especially skilled managers to control risk and, therefore, necessitates careful investor due diligence. We believe that extension strategies, if managed well, can play a beneficial role in many portfolios.

Smart Beta strategies—quasi-passive portfolios promoted for their potential to add value over ordinary benchmarks by exploiting market inefficiencies—are proliferating and attracting assets at a rapid clip.

Regularly reassessing the continued appropriateness of investment strategies is a crucial element of sound investment governance.

2015 promises to be another challenging one for investors. Starkly diverging central bank policies, structural economic shifts in most developed nations, and an array of geopolitical hotspots will keep markets on the move.

Ronald Klotter, Managing Director at Strategic, outlines the challenges involved in the process of evaluating and comparing returns among Outsourced CIO providers.

Deciding when and why to terminate an investment manager is one of the most difficult judgments that fiduciaries must make.

Strategic Investment Group's Tim O’Hara will reveal some of the insights that form the foundation of a tilting strategy, which can be combined with traditional asset allocation to enhance any portfolio.