Saxo Bank Creates Balanced Portfolio for Long Term Investors

Hellerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) -

Saxo Bank [C:UserspgAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary
Internet FilesContent.Outlook6MVBP6PUsaxobank.com ], the
multi-asset online trading and investment specialist, has created
Balanced Portfolio, a new asset allocation strategy that allows
traders to follow its progress on Tradingfloor.com
[http://www.tradingfloor.com/blogs/balanced-portfolio ] and duplicate
the strategy themselves.

The Balanced Portfolio is an ETF portfolio designed to collect
risk premiums across liquid assets in various economic environments.
Balancing the portfolio across different economies and asset classes,
and allocating equal risk to each creates a stable performance with
less volatility over time when compared to traditional
equity-concentrated portfolios.

Saxo Bank built the framework for the new portfolio on the idea of
four economic environments: prosperity, inflation, deflation and
recession. The asset target weights are calculated by multiplying the
economic environment weight with the assets' weights, which are all
set to equal.

Peter Garnry, Head of Equity Strategy, Saxo Bank commented: "We
have created the Balanced Portfolio strategy to engage traders, and
in addition ETFs have become a cost effective investment option to
gain broad market exposure. By implementing the strategy themselves,
the costs incurred are minimal and only related to executing the
trades and the total expense ratio annualised on the ETFs. We have
designed this new approach to address the demands of our more
long-term oriented clients, and to protect investors from
unpredictable events in the market of which we have seen so many of
late."

The Balanced Portfolio consists of seven asset classes (large cap
equities, emerging market bonds, commodities, gold, corporate bonds,
long-term government bonds and inflation-linked government bonds).
These are tracked by seven liquid ETFs
[http://www.tradingfloor.com/blogs/balanced-portfolio ] traded on US
exchanges, and asset allocation will be published on a monthly basis
on Tradingfloor.com
[http://www.tradingfloor.com/blogs/balanced-portfolio ].

The Balanced Portfolio is based on USD denominated ETFs, but due
to large demand from our European clients, a Balanced Portfolio based
on EUR denominated ETFs will be published in June.

About Saxo Bank

Saxo Bank is a leading online trading [http://www.saxobank.com/fo
rex?csref=b1744_Link_boilerplate_pressrelease ] and investment
specialist, offering private investors and institutional clients a
complete set of tools for their trading and investment strategies. A
fully licensed and regulated European bank, Saxo Bank enables clients
to trade FX, CFDs [http://www.saxobank.com/cfds?csref=b1745_Link_boi
lerplate_pressrelease ], ETFs, Stocks, Futures, Options and other
derivatives via three specialised and fully integrated multi-asset
trading platforms [http://www.saxobank.com/demo-account?csref=b1746_
Link_boilerplate_pressrelease ]; the browser-based SaxoWebTrader, the
downloadable SaxoTrader and the SaxoTrader app. The platforms are
available in over 20 languages and are white-labelled by more than
100 major financial institutions worldwide. Saxo Bank also offers
professional portfolio and fund management as well as traditional
banking services through Saxo Privatbank. Founded in 1992, the Saxo
Bank Group is headquartered in Copenhagen with 24 local offices
throughout Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Africa and
Australia.

ots Originaltext: Saxo Bank (Switzerland) SA
Im Internet recherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

Contact:
Media enquiries: Kasper Elbjørn, Head of Group Public Relations,
Saxo Bank, +45-3065-4300, press@saxobank.com ; MHP Communications,
+44-(0)203-128-8560, saxobank@mhpc.com