Investment Philosophy
Our investment principles are focused on managing risk and selecting asset classes and investments that are meaningful for client portfolios. These fundamental principles provide the framework for building portfolios with the greatest probability of meeting our client goals.
ADAPTIVE MARKETS
There is a degree of evolution within financial markets that forces competition, innovation, and adaptation.
Financial market dynamics are driven by our interactions as we behave, learn, and adapt to each other, and to the social, cultural, political, economic, and natural environments in which we live.
We strive to incorporate these changing dynamics and behavioral biases through our active management strategy.
COMPENSATED RISK
Investors expect to be rewarded for risk and have accepted the notion of a positive relationship between risk and return.
Unfortunately, this general expectation is shortsighted as risk is not equal and consistent over time.
We analyze risk and return with the primary goal of making sure our clients are rewarded for the risk being taken.
OPPORTUNISTIC
In additional to traditional investing, we search for unique opportunities that provide additional diversification in portfolios and have attractive risk/return characteristics.
Investment opportunities may stem from events that create price dislocations in security prices despite no change in the fundamental value, or they may come from new consumer needs and trends.
These opportunities occur in every asset class: stocks, bonds, real estate, commodities, and currencies.
DOWNSIDE DIVERSIFICATION
Diversification across multiple asset classes and investments is widely acknowledged as a core principle for prudent risk management. We too adhere to diversification among and within asset classes.
However, our experience shows that clients are concerned with downside volatility and how assets behave during these periods. We analyze and select assets that offer the benefits of true diversification when it matters most.