The active strategies seek long-term growth of capital. They are designed to remain fully invested throughout the economic cycle and weather market volatility, with the goal of generating alpha through stock selection.

Select Q

This strategy is a concentrated, growth equity strategy, seeking long-term capital appreciation through investments in innovative, large-cap growth stocks. The strategy selects 25 stocks from the Nasdaq-10 Index® using a multi-factor model to identify high-quality, high-growth businesses exhibiting positive earnings momentum.

Opportunity

This strategy targets between 35-40 individual equity positions, though it may invest in ETF’s or other exchange traded assets when needed. It takes a dual-pronged approach to research and investment. Top-down macroeconomic analysis is utilized to assess the current market environment and drives portfolio-level positioning within the equity universe. Individual investments are selected using a bottom-up, fundamental approach. In combining top-down macroeconomic research with individual stock selection, economic events are recognized for their potential to affect overall market returns while a deeper analysis of individual investments aims to incrementally add to potential returns.

Dynamic ETF

This strategy targets between 17-20 ETF positions and utilizes a core/satellite approach to investing. Using a top-down approach, individual investments are selected based off the firm’s research and analysis of the market cycle. Certain styles, factors, and industries outperform at different stages of the market cycle, and Dynamic ETF seeks to capitalize on these trends by making active sector investments and concentrated satellite investments in factor and industry-focused ETFs.

Core Equity

This is an active strategy that seeks long-term growth of capital. This strategy targets 45-50 equity positions and is designed to remain invested through market volatility and economic cycles. The Core Equity strategy selects 45-50 stocks from the S&P 500 Index using a multi-factor model that seeks to identify US large-cap businesses with industry-leading scale, operating efficiency, and earnings momentum. The strategy offers concentrated exposure to established market leaders while maintaining a sector composition similar to the index.

Helix Strategy

The HELIX Series combines strategic asset allocation with tactical risk management to create a holistic client solution. Actively managed, tactical exchange-traded funds (ETFs) form the foundation of the HELIX Series, complimented by 8-15 broadly diversified ETFs. Target allocations of equities to fixed income investments are determined by the risk tolerance of the individual investor. Specifically designed for taxable accounts, the HELIX Series seeks to capture the risk reduction benefits of tactical management in a tax-efficient manner.

Buffered Outcome Strategies (BOS)

Our Buffered Outcome Strategies provide a solution to investors that find experiencing losses to be more difficult than missing out on potential gains. These strategies utilize exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that seek to provide investors with returns linked to the performance of an underlying index(es), while also offering a degree of downside protection over a specified time period.

Our smarttactical^™ Solutions are driven by one of our two proprietary risk analysis models (macrocast^™ and microcast^™).³ The strategies driven by microcast^™ are denoted by the letters “TX”, indicating the experience within those strategies are driven more by technical analysis.