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Wealth Management Tag

AI Threat Widens to Financial Sector

 

Markets reacted sharply this week as AI concerns expanded beyond technology and into financial services, weighing on wealth-management stocks.

In The Wall Street Journal, Massimo Santicchia, our Head of U.S. Equities, offered his perspective following the latest retail sales data:

“Just because there’s one data point, I wouldn’t say that there’s a sign of economic weakness.”

Serving Those Who Served: Working with Military Families as Investors Requires a Different Kind of Expertise

 

Jeff Farrar, CFP, CIMA, AIF, Co Founder and Partner at Procyon, says that much of the work begins with helping military families manage continual transitions.

Andy Leung, Private Wealth Advisor at Procyon, notes that early discussions often revolve around foundational questions such as Post 9/11 GI Bill eligibility, the Yellow Ribbon Program, pension rules, VA benefits, and insurance needs. But as veterans advance in their careers, the planning demands become more sophisticated.

Lines of Acceleration – The Signals that Shape Decision

 

Procyon Partners’ Alpha Quant team uses free cashflow (FCF) discipline and momentum signals to identify ‘unconventional value.’

For Massimo Santicchia, head of US equities, traditional measures such as price/book, price/earnings, and price/sales have lost relevance.

Alpha Quant® Value Equity is a focused portfolio of 30 stocks that exhibit attractive valuations across large‐ and mid‐cap stocks. The strategy aims to exploit investors’ fixation with short‐term events and underappreciation of cash‐flow trends. The portfolio will typically display strong free cash flow generation, lower debt leverage and lower valuation multiples as compared to the benchmark and peers. The portfolio is managed with a fundamentally based, systematic process with quarterly rebalancing to maintain the portfolio’s focused fundamental profile.

Alpha Quant® SMID Cap portfolio is a multi-strategy portfolio that combines distinct systematic sub-strategies across small- and mid-capitalization quality and value investment styles. The portfolio is comprised of small- and mid-cap stocks selected based on profitability, valuation, low debt and strong cash flows. The strategy is built bottom-up and diversified across sectors and industries.

The portfolio is managed with a fundamentally based, systematic process with portfolio adjustments and annual rebalancing to equal weight to maintain the portfolio’s focused fundamental profile.

SmartALPHA® Defensive Value Equity Strategy aims to outperform the market over a full market cycle. It is expected to strongly out-perform during periods of economic contraction through recession phases. The portfolio will typically display strong free cash flow generation, lower debt leverage and lower valuation multiples as compared to the benchmark and peers. The portfolio is managed to mirror the underlying SmartALPHA® Defensive Value Index. Portfolio is driven by a rules-based process with quarterly reconstitution and annual rebalancing to maintain the portfolio’s focused fundamental profile.

SmartALPHA® Defensive Growth Equity Strategy aims to outperform the market over a full market cycle. It is expected to strongly out-perform during periods of economic contraction through recession phases. The portfolio will typically display strong earnings and revenue momentum and good cash flow generation. The portfolio is managed to mirror the underlying SmartALPHA® Defensive Growth Index. Portfolio is driven by a rules-based process with quarterly rebalancing to maintain the portfolio’s focused fundamental profile.

SmartALPHA® Defensive Equity Strategy aims to outperform the market over a full market cycle. It is expected to strongly out-perform during periods of economic contraction through recession phases. The portfolio is managed to track an equal-weighted blend of the SmartALPHA® Defensive Growth and Value Indexes with the goal of further factor and style diversification. The indexes are constructed with a rules-based process with quarterly reconstitution and annual rebalancing to maintain the focused fundamental profile.

Alpha Quant® Small Cap Value portfolio is a systematic strategy that invests in companies with strong cash flows, lower debt and high free cash flow yield. With the goal of avoiding value traps, the strategy excludes companies with high levels of short interest. The strategy is built bottom-up and diversified across sectors and industries.

The portfolio is managed with a fundamentally based, systematic process with portfolio adjustments and annual rebalancing to equal weight to maintain the portfolio’s focused fundamental profile.

Alpha Quant® Small Cap Quality portfolio is a multi-strategy, systematic portfolio that invests in companies based on profitability, low debt, and strong cash flows. Based on the underlying factors employed, this quality-oriented portfolio may tend to display value characteristics as well. The strategy is built bottom-up and diversified across sectors and industries.

The portfolio is managed with a fundamentally based, systematic process with portfolio adjustments and annual rebalancing to equal weight at the sub-strategy level to maintain the portfolio’s focused fundamental profile.