Investment

MAP designs and implements its investment strategies employing Aon as a General Investment Consultant and utilising Aon's global asset engine. This provides MAP with:

  • Global scale and leverage:
    Aon has over $4.1 trillion assets under advice globally and can thus negotiate competitive fund manager charges
  • Advanced monitoring and fund manager selection:
    Aon monitors over 4,000 fund managers and over 20,000 investment strategies regularly and selects the best fund managers for particular asset classes
  • Optimal blended strategies:
    Aon provides invaluable insight in changes and forecasts for market conditions and fund manager performance to assist with the continuous rebalancing of the strategies allowing for prevailing market conditions

Investment Process

Our process follows a number of key steps and begins with setting the objectives for MAP.

Clear objectives

Developing clear objectives

The ultimate purpose of MAP is to provide the Better Member Outcomes i.e. improved benefits to its members. To achieve that goal, the Administration Committee works closely with the Fund's Consultant (Aon) to agree and set clear objectives. Our first step is to work through some important questions:

  • Where do we want to get to (in terms of investment returns), and by when?
  • What risks the Administration Committee is willing to take along the way?
  • What will the Administration Committee do when things do not go to plan (either for better or worse)?

Then we translate these objectives into return and risk measures, both of which are linked to a defined time period.

Investment beliefs

Strategic Allocation

Implementation

Ongoing Monitoring

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)