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Welcome
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Prudential Financial’s Strategic Investment Research Group (SIRG) was founded over 25 years ago to serve Prudential's wealth management divisions. Today our organization has grown to provide services to a wide range of Prudential businesses, ranging from basic oversight and reporting to full-service platform consulting and discretionary multi-manager portfolio management.
We have over 20 professionals, averaging more than 10 years of experience, dedicated to investment research.
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Highlighted Research
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Sell Discipline: Portfolio Management Tool or Marketing Spin
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All managers have an investment process. Some are very complex and involve multi-factor models, while others are profoundly simple and involve only a few decision criteria. The structure of an investment process will vary across managers, however, every one will have something in common – a buy discipline and a sell discipline. But it is not enough to just have stated buy and sell disciplines, managers must adhere to them even in the most difficult of market environments, as they are the key drivers of performance. If either the buy or sell discipline is consistently ignored, the chance of historical returns continuing into the future is greatly diminished.
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Japan and the Rise of "Abenomics"
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For a long time, international equity investment funds have been able to add alpha versus their benchmarks rather easily by simply underweighting Japan. This was due to the relative performance weakness of Japanese stocks in comparison to other developed countries. In 2013 the game changed and funds with a similar posture have faced significant headwinds as Japanese stocks have outperformed by a very wide margin.
This research paper provides a timely analysis into the issues that have faced the Japanese economy, the aggressive action by newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to correct them, and the implications for investors as we move forward.
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Economic Outlook
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Global economic growth was disappointing again in 2013, as both developed and emerging economies underperformed International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts of twelve months ago. The recovery continues, however, and we expect that growth will gather speed in 2014. Our greatest conviction for upside economic surprise is in the United States, where we see numerous strengths. Learn More
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