How We Work With Clients
 
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You Stay In Control of Your Money

  • Unlike hedge funds, private equity or non-public REITs, you remain in total control of your money without any lock up arrangements.
  • Setting up to use our strategies is simple:  you authorize us to trade your account.  You maintain complete, real-time visibility and control of your account’s holdings and performance.
  • You may end your relationship with us for good reason, bad reason, or any reason at all.
  • If for some reason, we are not able to fulfill our fiduciary duty to you, because of sickness or death, no transition is necessary:  you remain in control of your account.
  • Our goal is not to manage all of your money.  We are not financial planners, but rather specialists.  We don’t want to replace your existing relationships for wealth management/private banking, but want to supplement/enhance your options for investment.
  • Our strategies are focused on U.S. stocks only and should be only one component of a diversified investment portfolio designed to preserve/enhance wealth.
Our Fees Are Reasonable

  • Our fees are reasonable by industry standards:  we typically charge 1% per year of the assets under management, billable quarterly.
  • Our minimum investment is $500,000, but we may waive this minimum at our sole discretion.
 
 
How We Invest is Defined and Transparent

  • Unlike some quantitative, investment-advisory firms, we have done our best to quantify the impact of taxes and transaction costs on our investment performance results.
  • You know exactly what we will do with your money.  Our strategies are defined and transparent.


At the Same Time, We Can Tailor Our Approach to Best Meet Our Clients' Needs

  • The core of our investment philosophy is to rely on our data-driven models and strategies; however, our clients sometimes request us to combine our strategies with other investment approaches to best match their risk tolerance.  For example, a client might want to utilize our U.S. Small Cap Momentum strategy in combination with a Buy & Hold strategy consisting of blue chip, large cap stocks, as well as investment grade corporate bonds.  Our goal is to be highly flexible in how to best meet our clients’ objectives.
  • We can also create/customize stock portfolios to meet a client's individual preferences for social, environmental or political impact investing that use our risk model as a foundation.
  • We often assume management responsibility for accounts that are already fully invested.  In these circumstances, we review the existing holdings of the portfolio and make recommendations to the client based on the tax situation and level of risk/return desired.  In taxable accounts, our goal is to make sure that any repositioning of holdings does not create an excessive tax bill and as such a significant portion of the portfolio is likely to remain invested in existing stocks held that have both large taxable gains and excellent long-term appreciation potential.  
 

Your Trust is Important to Us

  • We are independent and have no affiliation with any other firms that might benefit us financially.
  • Your relationship with us is confidential: we will not share your name with others without permission.
  • Most importantly, we have our own money invested in our strategies, which is testament to the confidence we have in them.