This document summarizes the benefits of direct systematic investing for advisors, businesses, and clients. For advisors, it provides justification for fees, allows a focus on strategy over transactions, and offers a point of differentiation. For businesses, it enables scalable boutique advice, the ability to capture higher net worth clients, and a value-add service. For clients, it provides clear fees and services, transparency of investment outcomes, and a differentiated approach. The strategy attributes include no forecasting, adaptive momentum triggers, cash protection in downturns, and the ability to operate on any market.
2. Benefits to the Advisor
• Tangible advice and tangible service measures – justification of
costing especially under fee for service
• Direct Share exposure – higher net worth client capture
• Time Management – minimal operating time, delegate to assistant
• Removes emotion from the transaction with the client – focus on
strategy
• Point of difference compared to your competitors.
3. Benefits to the Business
• Strong ‘Basis of Advice’
• Scalable boutique advice
• Higher net worth individual practice
• Point of difference in a market where clients are looking for ‘value
add’
• Ability to ‘capture’ any outperformance fees
4. Benefits to the Client
• Value add advice – clear fee structure and service level
agreement. Tangible outcomes. Visual and personal.
• Clarity of investment outcomes – one layer of fees (removal of
platform fees, Managed Fund fees etc if through SMSF or direct
monies)
• Strong ‘differentiation’ approach to peers
• Vanilla offering with 100% transparency
• Minimal transactions – appropriate for SMSFs
5. Strategy Attributes
• No forecasting or predictions
• Adaptive momentum triggers for buy/sell decisions
• Automatically ensures full investment in sustained bullish
environments and reverts to cash in sustained bearish environments
• Index filter provides on/off switch (100% cash mandate)
• Defends open positions to lock in profit
• Disengages from market completely
• Operates on any market universe or sector
11. Technical Information
Platform & Data
Amibroker www.amibroker.com (Licensed)
PremiumData www.premiumdata.net (Licensed)
Strategy Parameters*
Style - Active trend following
Transactions – 35 through 250 (user defined)
Data Compression – End of Day or Weekly (user defined)
Hold Time – 60 days through 3 years (user defined)
Risk Management – equal allocation method (recommended)
Pyramiding – None (recommended)
Entry/Exit Mechanism – Open Auction (recommended)
* All parameters are negotiable with input from client