Autumn Wind believes that disciplined money management requires much of the investment management process to be quantified and model-driven. Before we recommend any investment strategy, we model and test our investment concepts across a wide range of market environments. We believe that a comprehensive investment discipline should qualify the true economic value and limitation of each decisive step in the investment process. This differs from the majority of active managers who do not test the validity of their investment criteria. As a result, the majority of active managers are unaware of the value, if any, of their filtering criteria.

Key Beliefs:

• Risk matters. We manage wealth, not just a race against benchmarks.
• We are agnostic as to style (growth/value), capitalization (large/small), and sector weightings in order to risk and take advantage of various market conditions.
• We employ multiple security selection disciplines that incorporates value and industry relative strength (momentum) models.
• We apply rigorous sales discipline. Only half of the battle for superior return is in stock selection, with the other half a rigid sale discipline. Autumn Wind incorporates money management stops, price targets, and time limits for all positions in the portfolio. This helps us eliminate all analyst bias within the investment process.
• We utilize alternative asset classes including hedge funds, private equity, and specialty funds/ETFs.
• We meet with every client quarterly to quantify results and discuss strategy.