QID’s focus is on developing strategies that address investor behavior and needs. The industry promotes and develops strategies to address diversification and capturing alpha, performance and risk aversion. Whereas, based on behavioral studies, investors appear to be loss adverse. Investors appear ...more

QID’s focus is on developing strategies that address investor behavior and needs. The industry promotes and develops strategies to address diversification and capturing alpha, performance and risk aversion. Whereas, based on behavioral studies, investors appear to be loss adverse. Investors appear to want reasonable upside in a bull market but with downside protection in bear markets. The industry preaches to stay fully invested with diversification as a means of loss mitigation, Modern Portfolio Theory. The issue is that there are few strategies that focus on capital preservation to protect investors from extreme downside risk. As expected, during major economic events such as the bursting of the technology bubble in 2001-2003 and the mortgage meltdown of 2008-2009 the majority of asset classes participated in the stock market carnage. QID’s strategies address this issue with a built-in downside protection mechanism that investor’s desire, Post Modern Portfolio Theory. The strategies proprietary algorithms implement defensive treasury/cash positions up to 100% during periods it identifies as having a high probability of market loss, a feature absent from buy and hold portfolios QID’s strategies currently provide investor’s exposure to global, U.S. and international equity as well as fixed-income and alternative asset classes for the diversification investors need. The majority of our strategies are implemented with ETF’s that provide a secondary level of diversification to avoid the specific risk of any one security and tend to be cost efficient.less