Asset Allocation in Goals Based World

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation: The standard deviation is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is calculated as the square root of the variance. It is calculated as the square root of variance by determining the variation between each data point relative to the mean. If the data points are further from the mean, there is a higher deviation within the data set; thus, the more spread out the data, the higher the standard deviation.

Correlation: Correlation, in the finance and investment industries, is a statistic that measures the degree to which two securities move in relation to each other.

Asset Class Definitions:

Cash:Cash and cash equivalents are investments with the highest level of liquidity and safety. Common types of cash and cash equivalents include Treasury Bills and money market funds.

U.S. Core Fixed Income:Fixed income investments generally pay a return on a fixed schedule, though the amount of the payments can vary. Individual bonds may be the best known type of fixed income security, but the category also includes bond funds, ETFs, CDs, and money market funds.

Municipal Bonds:A municipal bond is a debt security issued by a state, municipality or county to finance its capital expenditures, including the construction of highways, bridges or schools. They can be thought of as loans that investors make to local governments. Municipal bonds are exempt from federal taxes and most state and local taxes, making them especially attractive to people in high income tax brackets.

Opportunistic Fixed Income:Fixed income investments generally pay a return on a fixed schedule, though the amount of the payments can vary. Individual bonds may be the best known type of fixed income security, but the category also includes bond funds, ETFs, CDs, and money market funds. Open an Account.

Absolute Return:Absolute return investing describes a category of investment strategies and mutual funds that seek to earn a positive return over time—regardless of whether markets are going up, down, or sideways—and to do so with less volatility than stocks.

Bank Loans: The bank loan market – or “leveraged loan” market, as it is sometimes known – comprises debt from companies with below–investment grade credit ratings. Bank loans are typically secured with a lien on the company’s assets. They also generally rank senior to the company’s other debt and offer higher credit ratings, or less risk and more collateral backing, than unsecured bonds. Companies tap this market predominantly to fund mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts or for general corporate purposes.

Private Debt:Private Debt consists of debt owed by companies that are generally illiquid and not traded on public exchanges and markets.

Non-US. Developed Fixed Income International Bonds are debt instruments issued by non-US government or corporations in their respective currency.

International bonds subject investors to the risk risks described under Fixed Income asset class definition. In addition, investors may be subject to political risk, currency risk, and liquidity risk. Political risk is a chance that investment returns are adversely affected as a result of political instability. Currency risk is the possibility that a change in currency price relative to another adversely affects investment returns. Liquidity risk is the chance that a sovereign entity may be unable to meet their financial obligation such as paying interest on a bond.

Equity Long / Short:Long/short equity is an investing strategy that takes long positions in stocks that are expected to appreciate and short positions in stocks that are expected to decline. A long/short equity strategy seeks to minimize market exposure while profiting from stock gains in the long positions, along with price declines in the short positions. Although this may not always be the case, the strategy should be profitable on a net basis.

High Yield Bonds:A high-yield bond is a high paying bond with a lower credit rating than investment-grade corporate bonds, Treasury bonds and municipal bonds. Because of the higher risk of default, these bonds pay a higher yield than investment grade bonds. Issuers of high-yield debt tend to be startup companies or capital-intensive firms with high debt ratios.

Convertibles:Convertibles securities are investments that can be changed into another form. The most common convertible securities are convertible bonds and convertible preferred stocks, which can be converted into a pre-determined quantity of the underlying company’s common stock. Convertibles securities subject investors to market risk, interest rate risk and credit risk. Market risk is the possibility that a security’s price will decline due to factors that affect the financial markets. Interest rate risk is the possibility that bond prices will decrease due to an increase in interest rates. Credit risk is the possibility that the issuing company defaults on its financial obligations including interested owed on bonds.

Emerging Market Debt: Emerging Market bonds are debt instruments issued by non-US government or corporations in their respective currency. International bonds subject investors to the risk risks described under Fixed Income asset class definition. In addition, investors may be subject to political risk, currency risk, and liquidity risk. Political risk is a chance that investment returns are adversely affected as a result of political instability. Currency risk is the possibility that a change in currency price relative to another adversely affects investment returns. Liquidity risk is the chance that a sovereign entity may be unable to meet their financial obligation such as paying interest on a bond.

Managed Futures: A type of alternative investments in the US in which trading in the futures markets is managed by another person or entity, rather than the fund's owner.[1] Managed futures accounts include, but are not limited to, commodity pools. These funds are operated by commodity trading advisors (CTAs) or commodity pool operators (CPOs), who are generally regulated in the United States by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association.

Covered Call:A covered call is a financial market transaction in which the seller of call options owns the corresponding amount of the underlying instrument, such as shares of a stock or other securities. If a trader buys the underlying instrument at the same time the trader sells the call, the strategy is often called a "buy-write" strategy. In equilibrium, the strategy has the same payoffs as writing a put option.

Private Core Real Estate:Real estate is property made up of land and the buildings on it, as well as the natural resources of the land including uncultivated flora and fauna, farmed crops and livestock, water, and any additional mineral deposits. Real Estate is not traded on a formal exchange or market. They are generally illiquid and may not be currently priced. The values and prices assigned to the investments are estimated, based on information typically received directly from the client.

Global Infrastructure: Infrastructure is the term for the basic physical systems of a business or nation—transportation, communication, sewage, water, and electric systems are all examples of infrastructure. These systems tend to be high-cost investments and are vital to a country's economic development and prosperity. Projects related to infrastructure improvements may be funded publicly, privately, or through public-private partnerships. In economic terms infrastructure often involves the production of public goods or production processes that support natural monopolies.

U.S. Large Cap Equity: Large cap (sometimes called "big cap") refers to a company with a market capitalization value of more than $10 billion. Large cap is a shortened version of the term "large market capitalization." Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of a company's shares outstanding by its stock price per share. A company’s stock is generally classified as large cap, mid cap or small cap.

Commodities:A commodity is a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other commodities of the same type. Commodities are most often used as inputs in the production of other goods or services. The quality of a given commodity may differ slightly, but it is essentially uniform across producers.When they are traded on an exchange, commodities must also meet specified minimum standards, also known as a basis grade. They tend to change rapidly from year to year.

Non-U.S. Developed Equity: International equities or international stocks are securities representing ownership of non-US company whose country is classified as a developed within the MSCI World Index. Foreign investing involves certain risks not typically associated with US domiciled investments, such as currency fluctuations, less government regulation and supervision, less liquidity and the potential for greater market volatility and political instability.

Public Core Real Estate: Real estate is property made up of land and the buildings on it, as well as the natural resources of the land including uncultivated flora and fauna, farmed crops and livestock, water, and any additional mineral deposits. Real Estate is not traded on a formal exchange or market. They are generally illiquid and may not be currently priced. The values and prices assigned to the investments are estimated, based on information typically received directly from the client.

U.S. Small Cap Equity:A small cap is generally a company with a market capitalization of between $300 million and $2 billion. The advantage of investing in small cap stocks is the opportunity to beat institutional investors. Small cap stocks have historically outperformed large cap stocks.

MLPs: Master limited partnerships (MLPs) are a business venture that exists in the form of a publicly traded limited partnerships. They combine the tax benefits of a private partnership—profits are taxed only when investors receive distributions—with the liquidity of a publicly-traded company (PTP).A master limited partnership trades on national exchanges. MLPs are situated to take advantage of cash flow, as they are required to distribute all available cash to investors. They can also help reduce the cost of capital in capital-intensive businesses, such as the energy sector.

Private Equity: Private equity is an alternative investments class and consists of capital that is not listed on a public exchange. Private equity is composed of funds and investors that directly invest in private companies, or that engage in buyouts of public companies, resulting in the delisting of public equity. Institutional and retail investors provide the capital for private equity, and the capital can be utilized to fund new technology, make acquistions, expand working capital, and to bolster and solidify a balance sheet.

Emerging Market Equity:Emerging Market Equity consists of stocks issued by companies of non-US countries classified as either ‘emerging market’ or ‘frontier markets’ within the MSCI World Index or the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. In addition to the general risk of foreign investing, the securities markets of Emerging Markets are substantially smaller, less developed, less liquid, and more volatile than the securities of US and other more developed countries.

Index Definitions:

Citi 3-Month Treasury bill: This index measures monthly return equivalents of yield averages that are not marked to market. The Three-Month Treasury Bill Indexes consist of the last three three-month Treasury bill issues.

Barclays U.S. Aggregate: A fixed income index comprised of investment grade corporate bonds, US Treasury securities, mortgage-backed securities, foreign bonds and government agency bonds with a remaining maturity of at least one year.

Intermediate Municipal 5-10 Year: The index measures the performance of municipal bonds with time to maturity of more than five years and less than ten years.

Barclays Universal Bond Index:The index measures the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated taxable bonds that are rated either investment-grade or high yield. The index includes U.S. Treasury bonds, investment-grade and high yield U.S. corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and Eurodollar bonds.

HFRI Blended Absolute Return: 25% Relative Value is a global, equal-weighted index of the largest hedge funds that report to the HFR Database which are open to new investments and offer quarterly liquidity or better. The Relative Value funds that comprise the index are a subset of the HFRI 500 Fund Weighted Composite Index.; 25% Convertible Arbitrage includes strategies in which the investment thesis is predicated on realization of a spread between related instruments in which one or multiple components of the spread is a convertible fixed income instrument. Strategies employ an investment process designed to isolate attractive opportunities between the price of a convertible security and the price of a nonconvertible security, typically of the same issuer. Convertible arbitrage positions maintain characteristic sensitivities to credit quality the issuer, implied and realized volatility of the underlying instruments, levels of interest rates and the valuation of the issuer's equity, among other more general market and idiosyncratic sensitivities. 25% Merger Arbitrage strategies which employ an investment process primarily focused on opportunities in equity and equity related instruments of companies which are currently engaged in a corporate transaction. Merger Arbitrage involves primarily announced transactions, typically with limited or no exposure to situations which pre-, post-date or situations in which no formal announcement is expected to occur. Opportunities are frequently presented in cross border, collared and international transactions which incorporate multiple geographic regulatory institutions, with typically involve minimal exposure to corporate credits. Merger arbitrage strategies typically have over 75% of positions in announced transactions over a given market cycle. 25% Event Driven: Investment Managers who maintain positions in companies currently or prospectively involved in corporate transactions of a wide variety including but not limited to mergers, restructurings, financial distress, tender offers, shareholder buybacks, debt exchanges, security issuance or other capital structure adjustments. Security types can range from most senior in the capital structure to most junior or subordinated, and frequently involve additional derivative securities. Event Driven exposure includes a combination of sensitivities to equity markets, credit markets and idiosyncratic, company specific developments. Investment theses are typically predicated on fundamental characteristics (as opposed to quantitative), with the realization of the thesis predicated on a specific development exogenous to the existing capital structure.

Credit Suisse Leveraged LoanThis index tracks the investable market of the U.S. dollar denominated leveraged loan market. It consists of issues rated “5B” or lower, meaning that the highest rated issues included in this index are Moody's/S&P ratings of Baa1/BB+ or Ba1/BBB+

Blended Private Debt Index40% Barclays HY (Barclays US High Yield Very Liquid Index (VLI) is a component of the US Corporate High Yield Index that is designed to track a more liquid component of the USD-denominated, high yield, fixed-rate corporate bond market: 40% Cliff water Direct (The Cliffwater Direct Lending Index (CDLI) seeks to measure the unlevered, gross of fee performance of U.S. middle market corporate loans, as represented by the asset-weighted performance of the underlying assets of Business Development Companies (BDCs), including both exchange-traded and unlisted BDCs, subject to certain eligibility requirements. The CDLI Total Return Index includes three components: Income Return, Realized Gain/Loss, and Unrealized Gain/Loss.& 20% Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index (This index tracks the investable market of the U.S. dollar denominated leveraged loan market. It consists of issues rated “5B” or lower, meaning that the highest rated issues included in this index are Moody's/S&P ratings of Baa1/BB+ or Ba1/BBB+: Private Debt consists of debt owed by companies that are generally illiquid and not traded on public exchanges and markets.

Citi WGBO NonUSD; The index measures the performance of government bonds issued by governments outside the U.S.

HFRI Equity Hedge;Investment Managers who maintain positions both long and short in primarily equity and equity derivative securities. A wide variety of investment processes can be employed to arrive at an investment decision, including both quantitative and fundamental techniques; strategies can be broadly diversified or narrowly focused on specific sectors and can range broadly in terms of levels of net exposure, leverage employed, holding period, concentrations of market capitalizations and valuation ranges of typical portfolios. EH managers would typically maintain at least 50% exposure to, and may in some cases be entirely invested in, equities, both long and short.

Barclays HYBarclays US High Yield Very Liquid Index (VLI) is a component of the US Corporate High Yield Index that is designed to track a more liquid component of the USD-denominated, high yield, fixed-rate corporate bond market

ICE BofAML All U.S. Convertible;The index consists of convertible bonds traded in the U.S. dollar denominated investment grade and non investment grade convertible securities sold into the U.S. market and publicly traded in the United States. The Index constituents are market value weighted based on the convertible securities prices and outstanding shares, and the underlying index is rebalanced daily.

Emerging Market Debt: 50% JPM EMBI Global: The index is an unmanaged, market-capitalization weighted, total-return index tracking the traded market for U.S.-dollar-denominated Brady bonds, Eurobonds, traded loans, and local market debt instruments issued by sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities. 50% JPM GBI-EM Gbl Div; indices are comprehensive emerging market debt benchmarks that track local currency bonds issued by Emerging market governments. The index was launched in June 2005 and is the first comprehensive global local Emerging Markets index. As Emerging Market governments look increasingly toward their domestic market for sources of finance, investors are looking more closely at local markets in search for higher yield and greater diversification.

Credit Suisse Managed Futures Liquid Index: Seeks to gain broad exposure to the Managed Futures strategy using a pre-defined quantitative methodology to invest in a range of asset classes including: equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies.

CBOE S&P Buywrite BXM:A benchmark index designed to track the performance of a hypothetical buy-write strategy on the S&P 500 Index.

NCREIF Property:A quarterly, unleveraged composite total return for private commercial real estate properties held for investment purposes only. All properties in the NPI have been acquired, at least in part, on behalf of tax-exempt institutional investors and held in a fiduciary environment.

S&P Global Infrastructure: Designed to track 75 companies from around the world chosen to represent the listed infrastructure industry while maintaining liquidity and tradability. To create diversified exposure, the index includes three distinct infrastructure clusters: energy, transportation, and utilities.

S&P 500: Widely regarded as the best single gauge of large-cap U.S. equities. There is over USD 9.9 trillion indexed or benchmarked to the index, with indexed assets comprising approximately USD 3.4 trillion of this total. The index includes 500 leading companies and covers approximately 80% of available market capitalization.

Bloomberg Commodity:Calculated on an excess return basis and reflects commodity futures price movements. The index rebalances annually weighted 2/3 by trading volume and 1/3 by world production and weight-caps are applied at the commodity, sector and group level for diversification. Roll period typically occurs from 6th-10th business day based on the roll schedule.

MSCI EAFE: Index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets outside of the U.S. & Canada. It is maintained by MSCI Inc., a provider of investment decision support tools; the EAFE acronym stands for Europe, Australasia and Far East.

FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs: A free-float adjusted, market capitalization-weighted index of U.S. equity REITs. Constituents of the index include all tax-qualified REITs with more than 50 percent of total assets in qualifying real estate assets other than mortgages secured by real property.

Wilshire U.S. Small Cap: A benchmark of the small-sized value (based on) companies in the U.S. equity market. The Wilshire US Small-Cap Value is a float-adjusted, market capitalization-weighted derivative index of the Wilshire US Small-Cap IndexSM and by extension the Wilshire 5000 Total Market IndexSM (Wilshire 5000®). The Wilshire US Small-Cap is divided into growth and value by looking at six factors: projected price-to-earnings ratio, projected earnings growth, price-to-book ratio, dividend yield, trailing revenue growth and trailing earnings growth. The Wilshire US Small-Cap Value was introduced in 1996.

Alerian MLP: The leading gauge of energy infrastructure Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). The capped, float-adjusted, capitalization-weighted index, whose constituents earn the majority of their cash flow from midstream activities involving energy commodities, is disseminated real-time on a price-return basis (AMZ) and on a total-return basis (AMZX).

Cambridge U.S. Private Equity: A horizon calculation based on data compiled from 1,468 US private equity funds (buyout, growth equity, private equity energy and subordinated capital funds), including fully liquidated partnerships, formed between 1986 and 2017.

MSCI EM: Captures large and mid cap representation across 26 Emerging Markets (EM) countries*. With 1,202 constituents, the index covers approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country. Emerging Market Equity consists of stocks issued by companies of non-US countries classified as either ‘emerging market’ or ‘frontier markets’ within the MSCI World Index or the MSCI Frontier Markets Index. In addition to the general risk of foreign investing, the securities markets of Emerging Markets are substantially smaller, less developed, less liquid, and more volatile than the securities of US and other more developed countries.