For more information contact: emailus@marcusevans.com An interview with Nouriel Roubini the Professor of Economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, the Chairman at Roubini Global Economics and a speaker at the marcus evans European Pensions & Investments Summit 2013, discusses the importance of adopting a global approach to portfolio diversification. Join the 2015 Summit along with leading regional pension investors and global asset managers in an intimate environment for a focused discussion of key new drivers shaping institutional investment strategies today. For more information contact: emailus@marcusevans.com

1. A Global Approach
to Diversified Investing
heighten fear and oil prices may rise. What other advice could you give to
This will have negative effects on investors in Europe?
advanced and emerging economies that
are essentially relying on oil imports. Due to the tail risk in Europe and the
global economy, investors should be
Investors can hedge against this risk by careful when they are trading off
buying protection against significant investments that provide high returns
spikes in oil prices or oil stock that can but are also volatile.
push the global economy into a
recession. In a vastly globalised world, investment
opportunities are expanding beyond just
How can investors receive steady one country or region. A global
returns in a low interest approach to portfolio diversification
Interview with: Nouriel Roubini, environment? across different regions, asset classes,
Professor of Economics, NYU’s Stern traditional and non-traditional asset
School of Business, Chairman, Investors in most advanced economies managers may provide exposure to
Roubini Global Economics can obtain extra yield by going out of attractive investment opportunities in
the risk curve. Another way could be by private equity.
achieving a diversified portfolio of assets
In a low interest environment, steady in emerging markets, equities and
returns on investments can be currency debt, as growth is most likely
achieved by obtaining extra yield, by to come from these economies.
going out of the risk curve in advanced
economies, says Nouriel Roubini,
Professor of Economics, NYU’s Stern
For some investors who are living in a
low-yield world, some risk is probably Investment
opportunities
School of Business, Chairman, Roubini beneficial, as they are searching for
Global Economics. “Another way could yield.
be by achieving a diversified portfolio of
assets in emerging markets, such as
equities and currency debt, as growth is
most likely to come from those
Dynamic asset allocation has been
suggested as a method for securing
yields in the current economic
are
economies,” he goes on to say. environment. What factors should
investors look out for in the near expanding
As a speaker at the marcus evans future?
European Pensions & Investments
Summit 2013, in Montreux, Last year was the year of great risk beyond
just one
Switzerland, 22 - 24 April, Roubini fluctuation, driven by tail risk coming
highlights how less volatility creates from the Eurozone and the US. This
opportunities for portfolio diversification year volatility may be lessened and
and asset allocation across different
regions.
more fundamental drivers of asset
evaluation, with relative growth rates
between advanced and emerging
country or
What strategies can help overcome
geopolitical risks?
markets, could become more important.
This leaves the possibility for portfolio region
diversification across different asset
The main geopolitical risk at the classes and regions to be more
moment is the risk of a war between successful. With diversification comes
Israel and Iran, with reference to the higher return at lower risk, making
Iranian nuclear proliferation. If the managing and hedging risk less
drums of war start beating, this might challenging.

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