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Crisis Events 2022

8th Mar, 2022

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Crisis Events

From: Brookstone Capital Management

It was only a few weeks ago that the main crisis event the markets were contemplating was Covid. Now, that crisis has been displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These events are statistical outliers individually, also called black swans because they are rare events. Crisis events or black swans happen much more frequently than investors often realize. The specifics of any individual crisis event…

The Importance of Upside and Downside Capture

9th Dec, 2020

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Minimizing the impact of market losses may be equally as important, if not more, than capturing 100% of market gains. That’s because, the bigger the loss, the greater the return needed to get back to the original starting point. As shown below, incorporating hedged equity strategies, such as Long/Short Equity, may help truncate drawdowns and reduce the long term impact of market declines.

Objectives for the NCF 2015 Pooled Income Fund

3rd Jul, 2020

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Objectives for the NCF 2015 Pooled Income Fund

The NCF 1015 Pooled Income Fund – IOUI has been created to provide long-term growth of principal with an emphasis on distribution of income to income benificiaries. Assets of the PIF will be invested in a manner looking to the relative interests of the income beneficiary and the charitable remainderman.

“Total return” provisions (“TRPIF”) are designed to provide distributable net income, with a secondary investment objective of reasonable…

Rebalancing: The diversification defense

23rd May, 2020

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Rebalancing: The diversification defense

From: vanguard.com

How rebalancing can help your portfolio weather volatility

Watching your portfolio’s returns go up and down can be an emotionally trying experience. Rebalancing to a predetermined, diversified asset mix makes it so you don’t have to worry about market instability as much. When you maintain the appropriate asset allocation, it can serve as a buffer against extreme swings in the market. As a result, you…