Notice: CIO Circle is a technology company. We license AI software to professional institutions — we do not manage assets or provide investment advice. Nothing on this website constitutes advice, a recommendation, or an offer.
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Institutional investment intelligence,
engineered for family offices.

A regime-aware allocation engine that brings the rigour of a global investment office to family offices and wealth management institutions.

Regime-aware modelling
Explainable, audit-ready output
Deployed within your infrastructure
Regime-Aware Allocation Engine
Portfolios modelled across all four macroeconomic environments, not solely the prevailing one
Explainable by Construction
Every weight is traceable to its inputs, constraints and assumptions, and auditable end to end
Full Multi-Asset Coverage
Public, private and digital markets represented within a single, consistent risk framework
Deployed Within Your Institution
Configured to your investment universe, constraints and investment policy, within your existing operating workflow
China Long Only Equity
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Global Private Equity
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Global Distressed Debt
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Digital Assets
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Global Long Only Equity
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Equity Long/Short
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Natural Resources
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US Small/Mid Cap
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InvestHK Endorsed
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China Long Only Equity
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Global Private Equity
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Global Distressed Debt
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Digital Assets
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Global Long Only Equity
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Equity Long/Short
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Natural Resources
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US Small/Mid Cap
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InvestHK Endorsed
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Model Architecture

Modelling capital across economic cycles

The engine does not presume a single macroeconomic outcome. It models allocation across every environment and demonstrates how a portfolio behaves in each.

High Inflation
Economic Growth
Low Inflation
Low Growth · High Inflation
Stagflation
The engine identifies areas of resilience — exposures that have historically preserved purchasing power through a cycle transition.
Inflation-linked bonds
Commodities & real assets
Short-duration credit
High Growth · High Inflation
Reflation
The engine weights modelled exposure toward the real assets and cyclical sectors that have historically led a broad expansion.
Commodities & natural resources
Emerging market equities
Real estate & infrastructure
Low Growth · Low Inflation
Contraction
The engine models duration and distressed credit — the exposures that have historically sustained portfolios as others retreat.
Long-duration sovereign bonds
Gold & defensive equities
Distressed debt opportunities
High Growth · Low Inflation
Expansion
The engine models growth exposure with conviction and identifies where modelled gains warrant de-risking ahead of the next transition.
Global & Asia long-only equities
Private equity & growth credit
Digital assets

The engine constructs allocations balanced across all four environments, so that no portfolio is modelled against a single outcome.

The economic-cycle framework and asset classes shown are illustrative model output, presented to demonstrate how the software works. They are not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security or asset class. In deployment, the engine runs against each institution's own universe, constraints and investment policy.

The Allocation Engine

Allocations calibrated to the prevailing regime

As the macroeconomic regime evolves, the engine recalibrates modelled allocations continuously — documenting the change, the rationale behind it, and its contribution to portfolio risk.

ENGINE Expansion High Growth · Low Inflation
Expansion High Growth · Low Inflation
Reflation High Growth · High Inflation
Stagflation Low Growth · High Inflation
Contraction Low Growth · Low Inflation
Modelled Allocation Output
Model output shown for demonstration only. In deployment, the engine runs against each institution's own universe, constraints and investment policy.
The Product

A single engine across the entire allocation workflow

Allocation Engine

Regime-aware, risk-parity construction across your complete multi-asset universe.

Scenario & Stress Testing

Evaluate any portfolio against macroeconomic regimes, market shocks and correlation breakdowns.

Explainable Output

Every weight traceable to its inputs, with reporting generated from the same model.

Portfolio Monitoring

Continuous drift, risk-budget and regime monitoring across every mandate under your oversight.

Research Intelligence

Macroeconomic and manager research consolidated into the engine, and into briefings for your team.

Implementation

Rigorous in method.
Straightforward in deployment.

01

We map your investment universe

We incorporate your asset universe, constraints, benchmarks and investment policy, so that the engine models your institution rather than a generic mandate.

02

The engine constructs and stress-tests

Risk-parity construction across 10–12 low-correlated strategy classes, evaluated across every macroeconomic regime, with every weight explainable.

03

Your team retains continuous oversight

Ongoing regime monitoring, rebalancing signals and audit-ready reporting, delivered into the workflow your team already operates.

Singapore financial district
Engine Benchmark

Superior modelled outcomes.
Identical risk budget.

Measured against a static 60/40 benchmark, the engine's risk-parity construction targets a materially higher risk-adjusted outcome at an equivalent volatility budget.

Benchmark
Static 60/40 Portfolio
~6%
Modelled return
10%
Volatility
0.4
Sharpe ratio
CIO Circle Engine
Risk Parity
Risk-Parity Model Output
15–25%
Modelled return
10%
Volatility
1.3–1.8
Sharpe ratio

Figures are simulated model output produced for software demonstration. They are not the results of any actual portfolio, client account or fund, are not a forecast or a performance record, and are not investment advice. Simulated results carry inherent limitations, including the benefit of hindsight. Sharpe ratios assume a 2% risk-free rate. No representation is made that any portfolio will achieve comparable results.

Singapore Marina Bay
Coverage Universe

Modelled across the full institutional universe

The engine represents public, private and digital markets within a single, consistent risk framework — including the illiquid strategy classes that most allocation tools cannot represent.

China Equities
Global Long Only
Distressed Debt
Private Equity
Digital Assets
US Small/Mid Cap
Global Resources
Reference Universe — Modelled Strategy Classes
China Long Only Equity
Asia Equity
Modelled
Global Long Only Equity
Global Equity
Modelled
Global Distressed Debt
Fixed Income / Credit
Modelled
Global Private Equity
Alternatives
Modelled
Digital Assets
Alternatives
Modelled
+ Equity Long/Short, Natural Resources, US Small/Mid Cap

Strategy classes shown are illustrative of the engine's modelling universe. CIO Circle does not distribute, recommend, advise on or offer any fund or security, and nothing here is an offer or solicitation to invest.

Insights & Events

Perspectives that inform the model

All Insights
PodcastApril 2026

China's Macro Economy, the Global Oil Crisis & Why Active Investing Wins

A China equity CIO with 20 years in Asian markets examines the underlying drivers.

Private EventMarch 2026

Exclusive Luncheon — Co-Founder, Global Distressed Credit Fund

Managing risk in distressed credit through uncertain macro cycles.

CIO BriefingComing Soon

Navigating the 2026 Rate Cycle — What It Means for Multi-Asset Models

James Soutar on model positioning as central bank policy diverges globally.

The Team

Institutional experience, engineered into software

Enoch Chan
Enoch Chan
Chief Executive Officer

Former McKinsey Global Partner. Built multi-billion-dollar digital wealth platforms for leading financial institutions across Greater China.

McKinsey & CoDigital Wealth
James Soutar
James Soutar, CFA
Chief Investment Officer

38 years in Asia-Pacific equities at Lombard Odier and FrontPoint. Former member of the HKEx Listing Committee. Designs and validates the engine's investment models.

Lombard OdierHKEx
Minutes Leung
Minutes Leung
Chief Strategy Officer

18+ years across HSBC, Aon and RGA. Deep expertise in cross-border wealth structuring, translated into the engine's family-office logic.

HSBCAon
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Tang Hong
AI & Technology Lead

Former Senior Architect at McKinsey's QuantumBlack. 15 years building financial technology end-to-end at the highest level.

QuantumBlackMcKinsey
Next Steps

Request a technical walkthrough

Our team will demonstrate the engine applied to your own investment universe.

Hong Kong & Singapore. For institutional and professional users.