Systematic Hedging for Enhanced Performance

SHEP

Systematic Hedging for Enhanced Performance

Protection

SHEP does not rely solely on asset allocation and subjective rebalancing to reduce risks in client portfolios. It:

  • Detects and responds to any market condition
  • Applies disciplined execution of its proprietary risk mitigation strategy
  • Strives to protect clients from major market downturns

Enhanced Performance

The SHEP Advantage, leading with protection, is key to delivering alpha.

  • Each security is uniquely optimized for performance
  • 63 proprietary metrics can better enable timely re-entries
  • Lower buy-backs may increase the opportunity to compound returns

Streaming live trading data is a key enabler of the SHEP® platform’s potential for delivering timely and accurate decisioning to effectuate its rules-based protection and performance objectives.

The use of technical indicators is core to rationalizing the current and anticipated market movements, supply and demand, and other market psychological factors.

Our proprietary branch of advanced analytics that assimilates historical data, momentum factors, unique smoothing analytics, and statistical modeling while attempting to formulate predictive patterns that enable The Edge to better discern anticipated future outcomes.

Our algorithmic consensus is a culmination of 63 relational rules-based parameters and customized risk threshold metrics whose outputs produce the SHEP® Advantage.

Executing SHEP® investment strategies with accuracy and speed not only reduces the chance for manual errors, but it also avoids emotional bias and subjectivity in trading decisions, benefitting from strict adherence in each strategy’s buy and sell discipline.

The SHEP Advantage

Our SHEP Advantage is produced by combining our powerful SHEP technology platform with our proprietary algorithm, the SHEP Edge. Together, investors can remain confident that our automation may improve their portfolios ability to respond effectively to ever-changing market environments. With each successful risk mitigation trade cycle, starting with protecting first, and then followed by successful timely reentries, investors can benefit from compounding more and more shares over time—The SHEP Advantage.

Systematic Hedging
Employs the use of tactical shifts in asset allocation to reduce risk (not derivatives). The Edge provides us with reliable detection and response to risks ahead of anticipated market downturns.
Enhanced Performance
The Edge continuously monitors the ever-changing market conditions to discern timely reentries at collectively lower buy-back prices than previous sells.
The Shep Advantage
The compounding effect derived from accumulating new shares with each successful risk mitigation trade cycle.

Performance Engineering

Modern Portfolio Theory (Efficient Frontier)

The beginning of the Modern Portfolio Theory dates back to 1952 with American economist Harry Markowitz. His position was that any given investment’s risk and return characteristics should not be viewed alone; rather, it should be analyzed by how it affects the overall portfolio’s risk and return. He discovered that by constructing portfolios using multiple asset classes that one could achieve greater returns without exposing themselves to higher levels of risk. In 1990, Dr. Harry Markowitz shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for this work.

The Modern Portfolio Theory remains the primary method in which investment portfolios are constructed today. It is foundational to how we create efficient portfolios to meet your clients’ return expectations at lower levels of risks. Yet we take it one step further, actively managing each security in client portfolios with SHEP, applying technical analysis in further pursuit of reducing risk and enhancing performance for your clients.

Technical analysis, as we know it today, was first introduced by Charles Dow and the Dow Theory in the late 1800s. Today, it has evolved to include hundreds of patterns and signals developed through years of research.

It is an investment discipline that attempts to forecast the price movement of virtually any tradable instrument that is generally subject to forces of supply and demand, including stocks, bonds, futures, and currencies. In fact, some view technical analysis as simply the study of supply and demand forces as reflected in the market price movements of a security. Professional technical analysts typically accept three general assumptions for the discipline:

  • Similar to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the market discounts everything.
  • It is expected that prices, even in random market movements, exhibit trends regardless of the time frame.
  • History tends to repeat itself. The repetitive nature of price movements is often attributed to market psychology, which tends to be very predictable based on emotions like fear or excitement.

Our SHEP algorithm uniquely identifies correlations between multiple momentum indicators and their respective security’s trading prices. The relationships between these two components are unique to each security in the SHEP portfolio, allowing SHEP to seek optimal returns for less risks that better protect your clients.

Goals-Based Investing (GBI) is much like it sounds. It is the development of an investment architecture specifically designed to accomplish financial goals funded within specific time frames. These constructs are generally known to rely on a combination of investments that, more specifically, minimize the probability of failing to achieve at least a minimum financial target level within a given time period.

We contend that the SHEP sell discipline, designed to anticipate and respond to market downturns by attempting to protect clients from harm, may be better positioned to accomplish their financial goals in shorter timeframes than some other conventional methods. Our defensive risk management strategy is designed to minimize downside risks. If successful, we may be able to optimize performance with significantly lower risks of shortfalls in the event of adverse market conditions.