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Our Dream is... Your Clients Realizing Theirs

To help your clients’ pursuit in accomplishing their dreams, our SHEP strategies are designed to successfully navigate capital markets and ever-evolving economic conditions. Hope is not a strategy and hope alone simply will not do.

Imagine a future where you and your clients can sleep well during major market downturns, confident that SHEP is striving to prudently preserve and grow their wealth. SHEP has been uniquely designed to reduce your clients’ exposure to risks, enhance performance, and increase the possibility of converting their dreams into reality in shorter time periods.

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Investment Strategy Profile

Stone Wall Financial selects Exchange-Traded Funds (“ETFs”) it believes investors have found most trustworthy and reliable to apply our SHEP algorithmic trading strategies. In pursuit of delivering risk-adjusted performance (a.k.a. “Alpha”), as compared to buy-and-hold conventions, each ETF undergoes extensive testing, uniquely optimizing each ETF’s proprietary 63 risk thresholds and buy-back metrics.

The Net Assets of the 30 SHEP-Powered ETFs

The Net Assets of the 30 SHEP-Powered ETFs

$1.52T - Equity Securities

$333.6B - Fixed Income Securities

$116B - Alternative Securities

The 30 Securities of the SHEP-Powered ETFs

The 30 Securities of the SHEP-Powered ETFs

IVV – iShares Core S&P 500 ETF
SPY – SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
IJJ– iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF
IJH – iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJR – iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
VBK – Vanguard Small-Cap Growth Index Fund ETF Shares
QQQ – Invesco QQQ Trust

SUB – iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF
TFI – SPDR Nuveen Bloomberg Municipal Bond ETF
MUB – iShares National Muni Bond ETF
LQD – iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
SPIB – SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF
VCIT – Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
VCLT – Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
BIL – SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
SHY – iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
VGIT – Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
VGLT – Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
TLT – iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF
VRP – Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF
JNK – SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF
ICVT – iShares Convertible Bond ETF

GDX – VanEck Gold Miners ETF
GLD – SPDR Gold Shares
PALL – abrdn Physical Palladium Shares ETF
PPLT – abrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF
SLV – iShares Silver Trust
USO – United States Oil Fund, LP
GBTC – Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF
ETHE – Grayscale Ethereum Trust

Note: The data provided here does not represent Stone Wall Financial’s AUM profile; rather, it represents the collective Net Assets investors have entrusted to the 30 ETF’s Stone Wall Financial has optimized with its proprietary SHEP strategy.

Source: Stone Wall Financial Sub-Adviser. Net Assets data from VettaFi site as of 8/15/2024 and in USD unless otherwise noted.

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 the automation to enable portfolios to respond to ever-changing market environments. With each successful risk mitigation trade cycle, starting with protecting first, and then followed by successful timely reentries, investors may 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.

The Edge

The Edge is our proprietary trading algorithm, empowered by 63 proprietary risk threshold and buy opportunity metrics, built on top of a reliable SHEP technology platform. The Edge is the key driver to all SHEP model portfolios and security investment strategies. The Edge has undergone extensive and rigorous testing as far back as 30 years across multiple securities, asset classes and investment styles. Our research and development revealed a keen ability to successfully time exit and reentry points that revealed the potential to protect in major market downturns while experiencing enhanced long-term performance.

Model Portfolio Construction

Risk-based asset allocation constructs uniquely managed to each security’s individual optimized algorithmic metrics, resulting in more ideal tactical rebalancing

Equity Strategies

We have optimized equity strategies covering a broad range of ETFs and individual stocks, diversified by company size, investment style, and industry sectors.

Fixed Income Strategies

Our fixed income strategies represent a wide range of core attributes necessary for diversification, including investment grade quality, sector, duration, and yield.

Alternative Strategies

Alternative strategies afford our clients the ability to invest in assets that fall outside of conventional categories, optimizing commodity and cryptocurrency ETFs.

Securities Powered by SHEP

We will continue to explore how SHEP can deliver  differentiated management to a variety of security types, assisting asset managers  looking to boost their investment performance.

Our Partnerships Options

Stone Wall Financial partners with firms, their investment advisers, institutions, registered and exempt investment companies as Sub-Adviser for delivering active portfolio management and investment strategies. We champion a broad spectrum of SHEP optimized securities through a variety of offerings and distribution channels, partnering with TAMPs and ETF providers to deliver our solutions.

SHEP Advantage Portfolios

We provide access to diversified models consisting of popular ETFs, built to help meet the unique risk profiles, time horizon, and objectives of your clients.

SHEP Custom Solutions
(Institutional)

Explore, by portfolio or by individual securities, how SHEP Edge may help to bolster the risk-adjusted returns of your own strategies.

SHEP Sponsored Securities

As a Sub-Adviser to registered and exempt investment companies, we plan to release additional SHEP ETFs on the global exchanges.

Your ETFs Powered by SHEP

Have your own ETF, or interested in starting one? Explore how augmenting your own strategy with SHEP Edge may help you increase alpha and lower beta.

Partners & Other Resources

Stone Wall Financial continues to grow a meaningful network of partners and other resources capable of contributing to our development and delivery of SHEP solutions.

Our Team

Our Stone Wall Financial team has accumulated several decades of experience in risk management, regulatory compliance, technology, private wealth management, private banking, investment strategy, securities analysis, and data & analytics.

Jerrod Summers

Jerrod Summers

President, CEO

Randy Hammond

Randy Hammond

Managing Principal, COO

Robert Cockburn

Robert Cockburn

Partner, Market Strategy

June Whitney

June Whitney

Chief Compliance Officer

Laura Stapleton

Laura Stapleton

Partner, General Counsel

Penny Fry

Penny Fry

Senior Data Analyst

Key Contributors

Additionally, we have assembled a dynamic team of talented and innovative experts in their respective fields, spanning across regulatory compliance, technology, data science & analytics, artificial intelligence, and marketing. As resources, their collective insight and precision has been a key enabler to SHEP’s product development journey and our adoption of evolving technology in pursuit of delivering best-in-class risk-adjusted returns.

Sachin Gupta

Sachin Gupta

Digital Product Development

Nikhil Gupta

Nikhil Gupta

Digital Product Development

Manoj Aggarwal

Manoj Aggarwal

IT Architectural Design

Anil Singh, Ph.D.

Anil Singh, Ph.D.

Data Scientist, A.I.

Bill Egan

Bill Egan

Marketing & Distribution

John Quinn

John Quinn

Regulatory Compliance