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Investing in equities is speculative and involves substantial risk.
Price-Earnings Ratio is a valuation ratio of a company's current share price compared to its per-share earnings.
Index descriptions (An index is unmanaged and has no expenses, and it is not possible to invest directly in an index.)
The Russell 3000® Value Index: The Russell 3000® Value Index is representative of those Russell 3000® Index companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The stocks in this index are also members of either the Russell 1000® Value Index or Russell 2000® Value Index
Standard deviation: The square root of the variance. A measure of dispersion of a set of data from its mean.
Sharpe ratio: is calculated by dividing a fund’s annualized excess return over a risk-free rate by the fund’s annualized standard deviation. The higher the Sharpe ratio, the better the fund’s historical risk adjusted performance.
Beta: A measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio, in comparison to the market as a whole.
Tracking error: The standard deviation of the difference between a portfolio’s returns and the benchmark or index it was meant to mimic or beat.
R-squared: A statistical measure that represents the percentage of a fund or security’s movements that can be explained by movements in a benchmark index.
Upside capture ratio: A statistical measure of an investment manager’s overall performance in up markets.
Downside capture ratio: A statistical measure of an investment manager’s overall performance in down markets.
Views are as of the date above and are subject to change based on market conditions and other factors. These views should not be construed as a recommendation for any specific security or sector.
Issues discussed within this communication represent the investment manager's explanation of factors that were considered when executing transactions or holding specific securities on the prior date indicated. Because this is a managed portfolio, the investment mix will change and the holdings are not indicative of future portfolio composition. Marketplace conditions fluctuate suddenly and frequently, and investment manager's opinions may change. These comments are not intended to be and do not constitute recommendations that others buy, sell or hold any of the securities discussed.
Refer to the GIPS report found on this website in the Performance Profile found in the Documents section.
For printing purposes, this commentary must be accompanied by the full GIPS report.
The characteristics are based on a portfolio which is used as a guide for cloning (or managing) underlying accounts to a particular strategy. Taking into consideration individual investor circumstances could cause deviation from this guide (e.g. restrictions, tax requests, etc.). Portfolio characteristics are as of the date shown above and are based on individual securities in the portfolio on that date. Securities in the portfolio are subject to change.
Risk statistics are based on gross performance. Statistics shown are not indicative of future statistics and are not representative of future portfolio performance.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
For additional information, including definitions of related terms and indexes, see the Financial Glossary and Benchmark Index Glossary.
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