Achieve Your Long-Term Financial Goals Grow and Protect Philosophy BakerAvenue believes that achieving long-term financial success demands an investment philosophy that grows and protects financial…
Investment Strategies

Achieve Your Long-Term Financial Goals

Grow and Protect Philosophy

BakerAvenue believes that achieving long-term financial success demands an investment philosophy that grows and protects financial assets. To achieve this goal, a key pillar of our investment philosophy seeks to defend capital against severe down markets. Our process combines three primary investment disciplines, Technical, Macro, and Fundamental analyses, into one comprehensive view.

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Technical Analysis
  • Relative Strength
  • Intermarket Analysis
  • Market Trends
  • Moving Averages
  • Support & Resistance Levels
  • Seasonal Patterns

Macro Analysis
  • Monetary Policy
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Interest-Rate Analysis
  • Currency Moves
  • Geopolitical Issues
  • Business Cycle Analysis
  • Inflation Direction
  • Credit Cycle Analysis

Fundamental Analysis
  • Revenue & Cost Drivers
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Positioning
  • Identifiable Catalysts
  • Forecasts vs. Expectations
  • Sustainability Profile
  • Valuation

BakerAvenue IMC
  • Risk Exposure
  • Portfolio Characteristics
  • Thesis Challenges
  • New Securities Selection
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CFA
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Senior Portfolio Analyst
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Wealth Advisor, Partner

Investment Strategies

Dynamic Core

Seeks to provide broad market exposure across a number of different investment geographies, capitalizations and styles. The strategy’s tactical allocation approach uses macroeconomic, fundamental and technical factors to actively manage its holdings and overall risk profile. In severe down markets, the strategy may raise its cash weighting to preserve capital. The strategy is broadly diversified and invests primarily in stocks and ETFs to achieve its investment objective of long-term capital appreciation and risk diversification.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Broad diversification across market geographies, capitalizations, and styles
  • Utilizes a tactical investment approach that focuses on the most effective technical, fundamental and macro inputs
  • Incorporates a long-term, risk-conscious approach designed to reduce volatility in periods of extreme market conditions

Q4/2023: Dynamic Core Strategy Factsheet

Blue Chip

Provides long-term capital appreciation with downside protection by investing in a diversified portfolio of high-quality Blue Chip stocks and ETFs in low-risk markets, and protecting principal in high-risk markets by moving to cash. The strategy proactively monitors long-term market trends to evaluate the risk/reward of having market exposure versus protecting capital.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Focuses on large, high-quality and income-producing companies
  • Designed to minimize risk and maximize capital preservation in periods of extreme market volatility
  • Broad sector diversification and low turnover for tax efficiency
  • Ability to move to 100% cash in severe down markets
  • Strict and unemotional sell discipline using both technical and fundamental criteria

Q4/2023: Blue Chip Strategy Factsheet

Global Tactical

The Global Tactical strategy seeks to generate long-term capital growth using active security selection and a combination of dynamic asset class and sector tilts. The strategy employs a blend of technical, macro and fundamental factors to select securities and to manage active tilts in the portfolio.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Tax-efficient exposure to equities using low-cost ETFs to represent core asset classes
  • Dynamic strategy tilts attempt to position the portfolio in timely asset classes and sectors
  • Active tax-loss harvesting by setting stop-loss triggers and selling laggards in the portfolio
  • Global approach allows for flexibility to allocate to traditional and alternative asset classes

Q4/2023 Global Tactical Strategy Factsheet

Global Income

The goal is to deliver above-average market yields while maintaining below-average market volatility by investing in multiple asset classes of income-producing securities. The strategy employs a quantitative approach to opportunistically rotate between equity and fixed income securities in an attempt to protect capital.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Seeks to provide above-average market yields in a low interest-rate environment
  • Potential for dividend growth over time by investing in companies that have historical track records of raising dividends
  • Greater potential for higher yield and diversification by investing in securities on a global basis
  • Tactical management seeks out timely opportunities between different income-producing asset classes
  • Prudent approach to protect capital in high-risk markets by rotating into high-quality bonds to provide a continuous income stream and to reduce portfolio volatility

Q4/2023: Global Income Strategy Factsheet

Impact Investing

Incorporates long-term capital appreciation with downside protection. By adding a socially responsible overlay to our investment approach, we seek to consider both financial return and social good. The strategy invests in a diversified portfolio of stocks and ETFs in low-risk markets, and protects principal in high-risk markets by moving to cash. The strategy proactively monitors long-term market trends to evaluate the risk/reward of having market exposure versus protecting capital.

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Potential Key Benefits:

  • Invests in preeminent and financially-solid companies that allocate their resources with the goal of creating positive change in their communities and the world
  • Broad sector and industry diversification
  • A variety of internal and external analytical tools are used to isolate socially responsible and high-quality securities
  • Strict and unemotional sell discipline using both technical and fundamental criteria

Q4/2023: Impact Strategy Factsheet

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Tactical Fixed Income

Seeks to provide current income, capital appreciation and preservation by investing in a broadly diversified portfolio of bonds. The strategy employs a quantitative approach to opportunistically rotate between multiple bond sectors to adjust the portfolio through shifting interest rate and credit cycles.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Capital preservation objective with overall high investment-grade portfolio quality
  • Ability to be hedged against US dollar weakness with exposure to international bonds denominated in foreign currencies
  • Tactical management of portfolio duration designed to manage interest-rate risk
  • Potential to be hedged against inflation with exposure to inflation-protected securities
  • Broad diversification across multiple bond asset classes and sectors

Q4/2023: Tactical Fixed Income Strategy Factsheet

All Cap

Seeks to aggressively grow capital by investing in fundamentally and technically strong stocks and ETFs across all market capitalizations. The strategy is active and tactical and may try to protect principal by allocating to cash in high risk markets. The strategy utilizes a fundamental and quantitative approach, supplemented by macroeconomic analysis, to select securities and protect capital.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Actively managed with opportunistic positioning based on the output of our technical, fundamental and macro disciplines
  • Focused portfolio that seeks to tactically capitalize on market trends
  • All-cap style allows flexibility to find opportunities across all market capitalizations
  • Designed to minimize risk and maximize capital preservation in periods of extreme market volatility
  • Strict and unemotional sell discipline

Q4/2023: All Cap Strategy Factsheet

Concentrated Stock

Strives to maximize the value of an investor’s concentrated stock position using a multi-disciplinary approach. Depending on the investor’s unique goals and circumstances with the concentrated position, we attempt to customize a management plan that may include divestment and diversification, risk reduction through hedging, income production by the sale of options, and reduction of tax exposure with estate planning and tax enhancement strategies.

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Potential Key Benefits:

  • Reduction of volatility inherent with a single-stock concentration
  • Maximization of divestment value using in-depth fundamental and technical analysis
  • Reduced tax-exposure on divestment by employing active tax-loss harvesting and estate and tax-planning strategies
  • Cash flow income generation with the sale of stock and index options

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TaxEnhanced Core

The TaxEnhanced Core strategy is a complement to our active Grow and Protect philosophy, with the objective of offering returns that closely track the S&P 500, while also generating tax alpha through active tax-loss harvesting. The strategy is implemented through a disciplined investment approach utilizing systematic portfolio construction and rebalancing techniques. The strategy does not use our TMF philosophy, and instead intends to maintain market exposure.

Potential Key Benefits:

  • Utilizes an active tax-loss harvesting approach with the goal of generating “tax alpha”
  • Prioritizes managing risk while deploying tax management techniques for potential deferral of capital gains

Q4/2023: TaxEnhanced Core Strategy Factsheet

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