Investment Solutions

Portfolios are actively managed to achieve investment performance excellence. We utilize a full suite of investment tools, asset classes, and security types to enhance income and total return, manage volatility, limit downside, and maintain liquidity.

Customized Solution

Investment Approach

Highly customized portfolios are created to specifically address the client’s investment objectives considering income requirements, liquidity needs, risk tolerance and total return expectations. Portfolio construction draws upon our asset allocation and asset class specific strategies to create a unique portfolio for each client consistent with their investment objectives.

Equity Premium Strategy

Investment Objective

An active equity strategy that seeks to outperform the broad equity market over the long term, while generating superior income with less volatility.

Investment Strategy

Actively manage a diversified equity portfolio that reflects our thematic and macro views, technical and fundamental analysis, and behavioral finance observations.
A diversified portfolio constructed with securities and low-cost, highly liquid ETF's.
An option overlay strategy is utilized to create additional income and manage portfolio outcomes:

Cash secured put-write approach is selectively used in a diversified manner across various sectors, security types, price points, and expiry dates. Our diversification strategy seeks to optimize the relationship between income created and managing risk. i.e., smartly capturing volatility risk premium.
Covered calls are selectively sold on the portfolio holdings to create additional income and manage portfolio risk.
Selectively utilize option positioning for hedging purposes.

Bond Premium Strategy

Investment Objective

An active fixed income strategy that seeks to generate superior income and total return performance relative to the broad domestic bond market. The strategy generates additional income through utilizing covered call strategies and/or adopting cash secured put-write strategies.

Investment Strategy

An active fixed income strategy that engages in duration management and sector allocation.
Typically obtains bond market or selected sector exposures through low cost, highly liquid ETFs.
Generates additional income through utilizing covered call strategies and/or adopting cash secured put-write strategies in lieu of holding fixed income ETFs when volatility premiums are attractive relative to yields and/or total return expectations.
May allocate a portion of the portfolio to non-investment grade credit and non-dollar credit on an opportunistic basis.
The strategy is long-only and unlevered, but it could be customized at client discretion to include short positioning and leverage if desired.

Absolute Return Strategy

Investment Objective

This strategy provides investors an alternative to a traditional asset allocation approach by allocating to asset classes and securities based on our macro views and expected returns over a tactical horizon. The objective is to outperform an allocation mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds with smaller periodic drawdowns, less volatility and low correlation to markets throughout a market cycle.

Investment Strategy

The strategy will make significant changes to the portfolio’s asset allocation positioning based on our macro views and the expected returns of asset classes and other securities over shorter time increments (typically 12 to 24 months).
The strategy will utilize long and short positioning across and within assets classes to either generate income or benefit from expected price movements.
Positions are diversified to limit the portfolio risk contribution from any individual position
The strategy may at times employ moderate amounts of leverage
This approach is typically employed by hedge funds, but we offer this strategy in a separate account format with full transparency, liquidity, without lockups and at comparatively low fees.