For more than twenty years, our team of experienced professionals has partnered with government, business and non-profit NGO clients to provide insights, advice and counsel through a broad range of support activities. We're general management consultants, which means that our clients benefit from our adaptability, broad perspectives, and diverse experience in different industries and different project scenarios.
At BRISK, we are committed to be client-focused and responsive, and to delivering high quality assignment deliverables that exceed stakeholder expectations.
Investment consulting is at the heart of our firm. BRISK utilizes a rigorous, multi-step process to select investment managers for our clients. This process is grounded in the financial markets research of the past 50-plus years and uses proprietary research, and reporting analytics to identify suitable managers in each asset class.
Creating successful strategies for institutional investment programs rests on a foundation steeped in expertise and sound judgment. We partner with our clients across a broad range of plan types to develop and maintain leading-edge investment programs. Our work is predicated on analyzing situations—from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective—as we draw upon a wealth of resources to be our clients’ trusted investment consultant.
We provide a complete range of global investment consulting services that are tailored to your specific goals and circumstances. Our experienced global consulting teams have a high level of varied expertise, the foresight to respond to new developments before they reach our clients, and the objectivity to challenge convention. We can help you solve your most complex investment problems in practical, cost-effective ways that impact your business.
The fundamental philosophy upon which this process is built is Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) and market efficiency/equilibrium. We know that risk and return are highly correlated. To achieve greater investment returns, investors need to be willing to accept greater investment risk (typically defined as short-term volatility). We also know that different asset classes (i.e. bonds, large cap stocks, real estate, etc.), have different risk profiles and therefore provide different risk premiums to investors willing to accept their inherent risk. Expected investment returns are based on an investor’s allocation to the various asset classes available in the marketplace. The primary determinant of a fund’s investment performance is going to be its asset class exposure.
Since the average investment manager cannot add value on top of the asset class returns and because asset class returns are so readily available through index and passive investment products, we start with our default assumption that we may index any given asset class. From here we look at the universe of actively managed investment products to determine if we can identify one of a minority of active managers that are likely to add value net of their fees.