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Investment Management

Core Investment Management Beliefs

We structure a low cost, risk efficient investment portfolio centered on the tenets listed below, while honoring your specific wishes and constraints (e.g. desire to keep a particular stock position.)

  • The key to a successful investment strategy is determining, implementing and monitoring an appropriate asset allocation.
  • Security selection and market timing do not add value in efficient markets1.
  • The asset allocation decision is, by far, the most important step in the investment management process2.
  • We construct a portfolio (using index-based strategies, seperately managed accounts and alternative assets) that has the lowest expected risk for the given return objective while minimizing taxes and fees.
(1) Source: Swensen, D (2000). Pioneering Portfolio Management. The Free Press: New York
(2) Source: Ibbotson, R and Kaplan, P. "Does Asset Allocation Policy explain 40, 90, or 100 Percent of Performance?" Financial Analysts Journal, January/February 2000.