When the Music Stops…

FROM THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT

When the Music Stops…

By Alton Cogert

“When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing,” – Charles Prince, CEO, Citicorp, July 9, 2007

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Investment professionals are familiar with the preference for building portfolios that are in the Northwest Quadrant of the risk/reward graph — improved return with lower risk.

Of course, those of you who know SAA also know that our approach to improving the investment process, and with it the financial results, of our insurer clients goes well beyond the typical efficient frontier risk/reward graphing so familiar to pensions, endowments, foundations and others.

The main purpose of this blog is to provide an ongoing commentary on how INSURERS can go beyond the business as usual approach to investments and improve their financial results.

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