Investment Planning

A properly defined investment plan is critical for achieving financial success. More than just a cliché, affluent investors understand that the blueprint to an overall successful plan begins with the correct approach. We believe that a properly managed Investment Plan consists of three essential components:

1. The Investment Policy Statement

Consider this: Would you head out on a cross country vacation without a place to stay or a map? Of course not. Unfortunately, many affluent investors do little or no planning when it comes to their portfolios.

Each client’s investment plan at our firm begins with a properly written and well-defined investment policy statement. This document becomes the blueprint of every client’s strategy, helping them effectively understand how to realize their long term goals, and most importantly, how to preserve their capital.

It is our experience that a significant number of affluent investors lack a comprehensive, written investment policy statement. This lack of planning often results in extraordinary risk taking and ultimately disappointment. 

2. Strong Collaborative Relationships

We believe that giving our clients the greatest level of investment access is a key component to their overall success. We accomplish this by bringing you together with the best-in-class wealth managers, enabling us to deliver on our promises of better management of risk and strong excess returns.

Our collaborative relationship with Advanced Equities Asset Management is a centerpiece of developing our clients’ overall investment plan and this partnership provides our clients differentiated separate account management solutions.

By partnering with Advanced Equities Asset Management we are able to serve the affluent and high-net-worth clients of our firm by managing specialized investment strategies that focus on meeting our client's specific needs. Seeking first and foremost to quantify risk and mitigate market volatility, risk management is the foundation of virtually every strategy we create.

Working as a team, we employ a variety of techniques to quantify and limit short and intermediate-term market volatility. The full scope of the combined investment methodology is multi-disciplinary, applying systematic risk management to global macro expertise. We also leverage proprietary quantitative techniques, technical analysis, and fundamental evaluations.

We believe this combination of efforts gives you an edge in creating a highly customized plan for their financial resources. 

3. Implementation and Monitoring

Foremost, we consider ourselves to be the stewards of our clients’ financial resources. That is why accountability and reporting are the focal point of our client-advisor relationship. 

We start by properly and completely implementing your investment plan. During this process, we are sensitive to issues such as full disclosure of inherent risks, costs, or fees. We appreciate that you need to understand the complete process and how each part interrelates.   

Once the investment plan is put into place, the work does not end. The monitoring process includes regular quarterly reviews with recommendations for portfolio adjustments as needed. No investment plan can be static; failing to rebalance a portfolio neglects to take advantage of the financial markets’ inefficiencies. This review and rebalancing process allows us to better manage the risk component of your investment strategy.