Our Business

We are currently an SEC registered investment advisory firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.  Our Asset Management business manages client and proprietary capital primarily through our two Global Macro investment strategies:  1. Global Alpha unleveraged strategy and 2. Global Alpha Ultra leveraged 2x strategy.  Both strategies were introduced in the fourth quarter of 2005.  We are introducing two additional investment strategies in the first quarter of 2012:  1. Dividend/Yield and 2. Momentum.  

Our Global Macro strategies dyanmically adjust risk levels in our clients' portfolios, and we keep our correlation with the S&P 500 low.  We invest in the following asset classes globally:

- Stocks (ETFs & Selected Securities)

- Bonds (Corporates, Municipals, Governments)

- Commodities (Hard and Soft)

- Currencies 

- Real Estate (REITs)

We manage our client funds through separately managed accounts (SMAs), which means that all our clients are able to access and see their own investment portfolios in their own name, and in real time online, with accounts they set up with either one of our institutional partners:  Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. or Scottrade, Inc.

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Please Read About Us in an August 1, 2011 Article on Forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com)

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Each member of our firm has a fiduciary responsibility to protect your assets, and each members' capital is also managed using our strategies, which aligns our interests with yours. Unlike traditional hedge funds, our investment strategies and portfolio construction are fully transparent to our clients, and there is no need to invest in a hedge fund type limited partnership.  Yet we offer the risk hedging benefits of Global Macro asset allocation strategies similar to certain hedge funds, without the lack of transparency and higher fees typically associated with such funds.

Our proprietary models and the collective experience of our Investment Committee, combined with our structured, disciplined approach to investing based on the fundamentals of finance theory have enabled us to outperform not only our benchmark global macro index, the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Global Macro Index, but also the S&P 500 index since our firm's inception.  Our main strategy has outperformed these benchmarks with lower volatility, or risk, levels.  Our asset allocation and correlation models are geared to preserve assets in declining markets while building them in rising ones.  Our clients also have a choice between our two strategies:  One is not leveraged, our Global Alpha strategy, and the other is leveraged by no more than 2x, our Global Alpha Ultra strategy.

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We are a California limited liability company, and are registered as an Investment Adviserwith the Securities Exchange Commission. We are also registered with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and Commodity Pool Operator (CPO).

You can contact us directly, or through one of our distribution partners listed here:  ING Financial Partners, Inc. and Cetera Financial Group, which include the companies PrimeVest Financial Services, Inc., Multi-Financial Securities Corporation and Financial Network Investment Corporation.

Your assets will remain in your name, or your designate, and under the custody of partners Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. or Scottrade, Inc., depending on your preference. 

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