Mission

Desjardins Global Asset Management's mission is to offer comprehensive solutions for the specific needs of its partners and clients. Desjardins Global Asset Management draws on an organizational culture that favours innovation and leadership in investment decisions and in structuring financial products in order to add long-term value to its partners' portfolios and activities.

Approach

Desjardins Global Asset Management's approach is to support its partners in constructing efficient longterm targets, identifying and diversifying sources of active risk and structuring financial products to satisfy its partners' direct needs as well as those of their respective clients.

Multi-management

Desjardins Global Asset Management recognizes that it is essential to have on tap the best expertise available in asset class management. Desjardins Global Asset Management makes extensive use of multi-management in areas where the expertise of external managers can significantly enhance expected net risk-adjusted returns.

Portfolio management issues

In the long term, two main types of investment decisions influence portfolio return:

• the choice of target benchmark,
• structuring active risk.

Note: The document presenting Desjardins Global Asset Management's mission is available on request.