Brian Presti

D.L. Carlson offers three different portfolio investment styles: Equity, Balanced or Fixed Income. The firm predominantly uses fundamental analysis when selecting investments.

Focus Partners tailors an investment portfolio to maximize the probability of achieving their client’s goals and objectives. The firm often incorporates both active and passive strategies into their client portfolios. Their investment decisions are guided by a long-term fundamental outlook. Focus Partners endeavors to enhance portfolios by seeking out uncorrelated and nontraditional investment opportunities that they believe have the potential to generate strong absolute returns over a full market cycle.

Harvest Capital Management (HCM) employs a disciplined, conservative investment strategy based on fundamental proprietary research. Their management style is a blend of value and growth with the overriding consideration of uncovering growth at reasonable prices. Their disciplined financial analysis is designed to improve objectivity and diminish emotional influence. They are long-term investors, not short-term traders. HCM seeks to generate consistent returns and superior long-term results. The firm's strategies take each client's individual tax situation into account to enhance after-tax results.^ ^ HCM utilizes a broad range of asset classes and investment vehicles to create globally diversified, multi-asset class portfolios. They focus on careful asset allocation using disciplined rebalancing techniques. Securities may include: domestic equities, international developed market equities, emerging market equities, commercial real estate direct investments, REITs, fixed-income securities, TIPS, natural resources, private equity, investment notes, absolute return strategies and cash/cash equivalents.^ ^ To avoid single-issuer risk, HCM uses passive or structured index vehicles to broadly diversify portfolios. The firm seeks investments with low correlations to each other to dampen return volatility within the portfolio and to provide protection in difficult markets. They minimize correlations by diversifying globally across asset types that tend to move independently of each other. HCM also employs absolute return strategies which derive their returns from different economic factors than those typically affecting stocks and bonds.

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TFC Financial primarily utilizes no-load mutual funds and ETFs, and their portfolios are generally global in scope and value oriented. The firm employs a “core-passive” approach in both the fixed income and equity segments of balanced portfolios.