Thinking “Outside the Style-box”

At Nottingham Advisors, we build and manage investment portfolios based on the complex relationship between risk and return, not style-boxes. By taking a holistic approach to wealth management, we are able to avoid the restrictions placed on managers committed to a single style, sector or country. This allows us to invest in areas where we see opportunity, and avoid those parts of the market that we deem over-priced, out-of-favor, or illiquid. Rather than trying to be simply a small part of the client’s investment mix, we prefer to offer a comprehensive, diversified, index-based wealth management solution. After all, investing is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
 
Nottingham Advisors employs a unique core/satellite investment strategy that adheres to a dynamic asset allocation model. This model is derived from a thorough, top-down assessment of the global economy. We utilize exchange-traded funds, individual equities and individual bonds to implement our strategy - all brought together in customized separately managed accounts. Further, these portfolios are tailored to the client’s exact risk tolerance and return requirement.
 
The Nottingham Advisors model factors include company size, industry sector, investment style, country and objective. We employ both traditional cap-weighted indices as well as fundamentally weighted indices in our models. Our portfolios traditionally have a tactical overlay that incorporates sector plays, style tilts, geographic weights as well as an "alternative asset" component. Percentage weightings are based on our own internal analysis of risk and return.
 
Our fixed-income component is client-specific – meaning the portfolio is tailored to the exact risk tolerance, time horizon, tax-status and cash flow needs of the client. Eligible investments may include government bonds, corporate and agency debt, mortgage bonds, municipal debt, high-yield and international debt, as well as fixed-income vehicles such as preferred stock and high-income exchange-traded funds.
 
By structuring, maintaining and periodically rebalancing diversified index-based portfolios, Nottingham Advisors is able to offer its clients a low-cost, tax-efficient wealth management solution tailored to the exact risk and return profile of the individual client.