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The goal of this strategy is to enhance returns over a buy-hold, U.S. large-cap equity benchmark by overweighting and underweighting sectors based on NDR’s proprietary sector model and mitigating the effects of substantial market declines by reducing equity market exposure as dictated by NDR’s U.S. Equity model.
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This fixed income allocation strategy has the goals of managing risk and keeping you on the right side of major market moves. Each month, macroeconomic and technical indicators are combined to evaluate the relative attractiveness of eight fixed income ETFs across sectors and geographies. A daily risk management model blends macro, fundamental, technical, and behavioral indicators to gauge whether the environment warrants a higher or lower overall risk profile to raise cash from higher risk areas during periods of market stress
This non-U.S. equity allocation strategy has the goals of managing risk and keeping you on the right side of major market moves. Each month, macroeconomic and technical indicators are combined to evaluate the relative attractiveness of eight "core" ETFs larger markets. An "explore" model selects approximately five ETFs from a pool of smaller markets. A daily risk management model blends macro, fundamental, technical, and behavioral indicators to gauge whether the environment warrants a higher or lower overall risk profile to raise cash during periods of market stress.
Invests in 13 different assets including U.S. equities, global equities, fixed income, and cash. NDR's dynamic automated investment strategy changes asset class shares based on a set of objective indicators that capture financial market trends in an attempt to minimize the effects of downturns in critical market times. The diversified portfolio consists of highly liquid exchange traded funds (ETFs) with US stocks and bonds, developed markets , and emerging markets. Bulgarian investors have economical access to ETFs from the United States, which are available to non-professional investors in Europe.
The objective of the Euronext Wind and Solar World Index is to help investors identify companies associated with growth in the wind or solar industries. The Euronext Wind and Solar World Index tracks companies based on their involvement solar trackers/inverters/electronics, solar cells/glass/panels/storage, solar farm development/operation, turbine/tower manufacturing/installation/service, wind farm development/operation, or utilities owners/users of wind farms.
The NDR Active Allocation - Kathrein fund is a dynamically managed balanced fund-of-fund using exchange traded funds (ETFs) for the various asset classes of stocks, bonds, and money markets. The individual asset classes can be over or underweighted based on quantitative models depending on the current market situation independent of the benchmark. The investment decisions may use the research and the capital market forecasts of Ned Davis Research (NDR).
Invests in 13 different assets including U.S. equities, global equities, fixed income, and cash. This model utilizes a turnover-reducing algorithm to keep trading cost down and rebalances monthly, providing a tactical asset allocation overlay to the ETF investable asset classes.
Merges macroeconomic and technical indicators in a weight-of-the-evidence approach to allocate across nine fixed income sectors including duration, quality, and geographies.
A disciplined tactical asset allocation strategy that objectively combines indicators to invest in promising opportunities across asset classes and regions.
A disciplined, tactical allocation strategy that objectively combines indicators to invest in promising opportunities across non-U.S. equities.
Combines trend, behavioral, fundamental, and macroeconomic indicators in a weight-of-the-evidence approach to assign tactical asset weights vs. a cap-weighted benchmark of eleven sectors within the U.S. large-cap space.
VanEck Vectors Long/Flat Trend ETF (LFEQ®) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Ned Davis Research CMG US Large Cap Long/Flat Index (NDRCMGLF). The NDRCMGLF Index follows a proprietary model that determines when, and by how much, it allocates to U.S. equities and/or U.S. Treasury bills to seek to help avoid losses in declining markets or capitalize from rising markets. The model produces daily trade signals to determine the Index's equity allocation percentage (100%, 50%, or 0%).
Brian Sanborn, CFA Global Head of Investment Solutions
Amy Lubas, CFA Vice President of Investment Solutions
Paul Jakubowicz, CFA Managing Director, NDR
Lisa Michalski, CFA Director, Customer Research Solutions
Ed Clissold, CFA Chief U.S. Strategist
Trey Johnson Senior Research Analyst
Kiersten Engel Senior Research Analyst
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There may be a potential tax implication with a rebalancing strategy. Re-balancing involves selling some positions and buying others, and this activity results in realized gains and losses for the positions that are sold. This reduction could be material to the overall performance of an actual trading account. NDR does not provide legal, tax or accounting advice. Please consult your tax advisor in connection with this material, before implementing such a strategy, and prior to any withdrawals that you make from your portfolio.
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