NACM Equity Component
For the Equity Component, the Fund uses a systematic investment process to identify non-U.S. companies poised to benefit from positive change, with sustainable fundamentals and timely market recognition. Through a dynamic set of quantitative factors, the Fund uses a proprietary global equity model to generate stock, sector country and currency recommendations from an investment universe composed primarily of companies located within the developed countries represented by the MSCI EAFE Index. The resultant investment ideas are reviewed by the portfolio management team to confirm the investment thesis before final purchase. Model overrides are performed when deemed necessary and the model is rerun to find the optimal alternative. The Fund’s risk-management system reviews portfolios daily, using both attribution and performance analysis.
OCC Index Option Strategy
For the Index Option Strategy, the Fund uses both broad country index call options and put options with the objective of optimizing the correlation between the Equity Component’s international allocation and the option strategy’s exposure- writing options slightly “out of the money” with an average duration of 3 months.
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