Heading investments during volatility

the role of a chief investment officer primarily involves understanding, managing, and monitoring a firm’s portfolio of assets and setting the investment strategies for growth, among others.

During the global pandemic, the biggest such event since the Great Depression, which hit the global economy and public markets hard, Adriaan Pask, PSG Wealth’s CIO, stuck to diversification as one of the key investment strategies to weatherthe storms and continued to recommend the use of multi-asset portfolios to withstand the volatile market climate.

“People talk about diversification so often that it is almost taken as a cliché of a topic,” says Pask, but in the current environment, “it is super important, because what we expect to see is a lot more volatility.”

Regulatory crackdowns standing out

Apart from some of the huge knockon effects emanating from the global