BNY Mellon Beta Management, a BNY Mellon Asset Management business that facilitates rebalancing programs and synthetic asset class exposure through the use of futures, swaps, index funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), outlines the risks and potential costs of such a delay in its report, Interim Portfolio Management.

"Utilizing an interim manager can provide institutions with market exposure and mitigate risk until a new permanent investment manager takes over the portfolio," said Jon Platt, director at BNY Mellon Beta Management and a co-author of the report.

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"The factors that can delay the change from one permanent investment manager to another can add up to several months between the decision to make a change and the implementation. During this period, the institution might needlessly expose itself to market risk or the decisions of an investment manager in which it no longer has confidence," Platt added.

The paper examines a range of solutions designed to minimize transaction costs and tracking error, while providing institutions with the type of market exposure sought during the move to a new permanent manager. This includes weighing a variety of factors including the costs of redemption fees required to change the composition of a portfolio and the ability to retain positions from a terminated strategy to fund a new strategy at zero cost.

"In seeking to reduce costs, the decision to trade should only be made when there is a high probability of increased returns or decreased risk," said Platt. "Transaction costs can be a significant drag on fund performance and over time can impair a fund’s ability to satisfy its liabilities."

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