BizBahrain Magazine Sep-Oct 2017

Interview | Takaud
Takaud Savings and Pensions
announced recently that its Global
investment strategies all showed
highly positive results in the first 6
months of 2017, with returns to investors
of 9.91% for Global Growth, 5.84% for Global
Balanced, and 3.31% for the Global Prudent
Strategy.
In an interview with bizbahrain,
Johannes van der Dong, Chief Investment
Officer at Takaud Savings and Pensions,
revealed how investment strategies
can give any investor-from a first-time
retail investor to a small or medium-size
business-access to some of the world’s
premier mutual funds backed by expert
management. He also shared some of the
secrets to TAKAUD’s investment success.
Your Global Growth Investment Strategy
saw more than 11% growth in 2016. How do
this year’s results compare?
Well, the 9.91% achieved in 6 months
compares very well to last year’s
performance of 11.58% for 12 months. In
investing, you can never say that the
results in the first part of the year will
continue for the rest of the year. But we are
very pleased for our customers, especially
those who invested this year and have
already seen quite spectacular growth. We
always strive to achieve positive results.
INVESTING
MADE EASY
Johannes Van Der Dong
Chief Investment Officer, Takaud Savings and Pensions
What is an investment strategy?
An investment strategy is a set
of mutual funds that we put together
to create a diversified portfolio. This
means that someone who invests in an
investment strategy has the diversity
that is so important for investing.
With a single investment you have an
interest in companies large and small,
large economies like the USA or the UK,
emerging economies like China and
India, and different industries such as
oil and gas, technology, social media and
32 September-October 2017