If you were running a 100 million equity fund.

I am done with an interview but there was a question that I couldn't answer well. Need you guys opinions.
If you were running a 100 million equity fund. There is no constrains. How do you allocate the asset and why?

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This question aims to find out about how much you know about investing. What sectors would you invest in, what is your mandate, what is your risk tolerance. Are you gonna invest in emerging markets (if so what %), how about developed markets. Where do you see growth and what kind of firm do you want to hold.

A discussion of some of the points above should give you a good shot.

 

Isn't that kind of a personal/fund specific question? I would allocate all the funds to my 25 top bottom-up picks regardless of market cap/country/sector.., but it would make little sense giving such an answer to a pm at a well-diversified macro-driven fund right?

 
Jabahei

Isn't that kind of a personal/fund specific question?
I would allocate all the funds to my 25 top bottom-up picks regardless of market cap/country/sector.., but it would make little sense giving such an answer to a pm at a well-diversified macro-driven fund
right?

yup

 

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