Working Investor

Investor profile

You need growth to achieve your financial goals, but you’re uncomfortable staying fully invested when market risk is high. You want to take advantage of the stock market’s opportunities, but you also want to protect what you have.

Your issues and concerns

• Rather than ride the markets down with a simple "buy-and-hold" strategy, you prefer to move to the safety of cash in high-risk market cycles.
• You still have work years ahead, but you may be behind schedule for retirement goals.
• You’re seeking an investment approach that protects you from bear markets, yet still offers the opportunity for significant growth.
• You’re not satisfied with relative returns. You want to beat the S&P 500 in up markets and preserve capital in down markets.
• You expect a disciplined strategy with rigorous risk management. Yet you don’t want investment decisions to be limited by market caps or countries.

The Baker Avenue Solution: All Cap Core and Global Tactical Indexing Strategies

Our central All Cap Core strategy works synergistically with our Global Tactical Indexing approach, delivering the best of both active and tactical investing. Together, they control downside risk while offering the potential for market-beating returns.

• The All Cap Core strategy moves up to 100% cash in high risk markets in order to protect principal. When conditions improve, we reinvest in strong stocks.
• Our Global Tactical Indexing strategy uses the market’s strongest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for growth in low risk markets, and inverse ETFs for capital preservation and potentially even some growth in high-risk markets.
• Both strategies have the freedom and flexibility to invest wherever we see opportunities—across all styles, sectors, industries, and countries.
• We nimbly adjust our asset allocation in order to capture the up cycles while avoiding long periods of underperformance and loss.

All client portfolios are managed in accordance with individual investor guidelines.