Thursday, October 14, 2010

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

Ken Hawkins is the founder of Ohow Investor Consultants, a private investment office, set up to help high net worth investors effectively manage their investment portfolios. Ohow is the Cree Indian word for “Owl” and the Owl has become to symbolize, wisdom, prophecy and prosperity.

As a seasoned investment professional Ken has gained considerable knowledge in the many facets of investment management including portfolio management, investment consulting, quantitative research, investment strategies and the unique challenges of working with high net worth private investors.

Prior to founding Ohow Investor Consultants, Ken was  the Chief Investment Strategist at Weigh House Investor Services, a Portfolio manager with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan,  A Quantitative Analyst/ Strategist with Scotia Capital and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and as an Investment Advisor with ScotiaMcleod and BMO Nesbitt Burns.

The objective of this blog is to provide information, insights, about the implementation of investment stratifies and the process of managing the investment assets specifically for the high net worth investor. This blog will also discuss the unique characteristics of the high net worth investors and those who provide the service, products and advice to them.

Our philosophy for the investment management is as follows:
        
  • The optimal approach to investment management, involves a mix of both passive and active investment strategies utilizing the strengths of both approaches and minimizing their weakness.
  • Costs and fees are an inevitable part of managing investment assets. Minimizing cost is important, but more important is assuring you get the best value out of the fees that are paid.
  • A simple, eloquent, easily understood, but well diversified portfolio is always preferred to a complex, overly diversified portfolio.
  • Developing and following the correct investment policy and asset mix, understanding and managing risk, and the proper rebalancing of asset classes and investment managers are most important factors for investment success.
  • Investors should think of themselves as the CEO of their investment portfolio, like being a CEO of an operating company.

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