Investment Management

Strategic Capital Compared to
Traditional Portfolio Management

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  • Strategic Capital's Value-added Management

    • Grounded in the efficiency of capital markets.
    • Captures specific dimensions of risk identified by academic research.
    • Minimizes transaction costs and enhances returns through trading and engineering.
  • Traditional Active Management

    • Attempts to beat the market through security selection and market timing.
    • Undermines asset class exposure to keep up with the most "promising" securities.
    • Generates higher fees, trading costs, and taxes due to increased turnover.
  • Traditional Passive/Index Management

    • Accepts asset class returns.
    • Allows commercial benchmarks to define strategy.
    • Sacrifices transaction costs and turnover in favor of tracking.