Our Strategies

Capital Advisors offers six core portfolio strategies that incorporate a broad spectrum asset classes, as well as both active and passive investment philosophies. We encourage portfolio managers to mix and match among these six portfolio "building blocks" to produce highly customized portfolio solutions for clients' unique investment objectives and risk constraints.

Managed Equity: Capital Advisors built its reputation with its actively managed stock strategy more than 30-years ago. We combine rigorous fundamental analysis with quantitative disciplines to create strategically focused portfolios of 30-40 large-cap and mid-cap growth stocks for investors. Fact Sheet

Fixed Income: Our approach to managing bond portfolios is distinguished by the degree of portfolio customization we enable for our clients. Within an overall philosophy that emphasizes preservation of capital, we construct clients' bond portfolios around one of three core designs: A "Liquidity" strategy for clients seeking low volatility and ready access to capital; An "Income" structure intended to maximize monthly cash flows; and a "Aggregate" approach that strikes a balance between liquidity and income objectives. Fact Sheet

Smart PortfoliosTM: Through a partnership with Smart PortfoliosTM LLC Capital Advisors delivers access to the industry's most advanced approach to multi-sector portfolio design and implementation. Smart Model Portfolios can be incorporated into clients' investment strategies seamlessly without the need for duplicate custodian accounts or management contracts. Fact Sheet

Diversified Equity Growth Strategy: The Diversified Equity Growth Strategy maintains exposure to 10 equity asset sectors at all times - large-cap growth, large-cap value, mid-cap, small-cap, international, emerging markets, Japan, natural resources, real estate and high-yield debt. The strategy invests in exchange traded funds, or "ETFs" that track passive indexes for each of these 10 asset sectors. Fact Sheet

Diversified Equity-Income Strategy: The Diversified Equity-Income Strategy maintains exposure to eight equity asset sectors at all times - large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, international, Japan, natural resources, real estate and high-yield debt. The strategy invests in exchange traded funds, or "ETFs" that track passive indexes for each of these eight asset sectors.

A key differentiating factor for the Diversified Equity Equity-Income Strategy is its use of dividend-weighted indexes to track each market sector. The ETFs included in the strategy emphasize stocks with higher dividend payments to produce an income stream for the portfolio in addition to its objective of long-term appreciation. Fact Sheet

Dynamic Allocation Strategy: The Dynamic Allocation Strategy adjusts its risk profile dynamically among five equity market sectors - U.S. stocks, international stocks, emerging markets, real estate and commodities - and one fixed income sector - U.S. investment-grade bonds. The strategy invests in exchange traded funds, or "ETFs" that track passive indexes for each of these six sectors.

The strategy utilizes a quantitative marker called a "moving average" to measure the trend in each of the five equity sectors on a monthly basis. When the trend for a given equity sector is positive the portfolio retains a position in an ETF that tracks that sector. When the trend is negative the ETF for that sector is sold, and the proceeds are reinvested into an ETF that tracks domestic investment-grade bonds.

Changes to the portfolio occur monthly based upon a monthly assessment of moving average markers for each sector in the portfolio. Total equity exposure can range from a minimum weighting of 10% when all five equity sectors indicate a negative trend, up to a maximum weighting of 98% when all five sectors are trending higher. Fact Sheet