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Hello everyone.
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Welcome to unfiltered Finance. This is your host Tom Romano.
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I want to welcome you all back. We have a very
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interesting topic to discuss with you today. It's
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the notion of investors keeping more money in
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their pockets by bringing tax management into
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their investment Holdings. Not only are
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we going to talk about tax management, but some of the things investors should
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be considering in terms of how they view Capital markets how they should be
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investing and then we have a couple of special guests
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to talk about some additional strategies that investors should
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consider in terms of bringing tax
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Alpha if you will to the table so joining
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us is Phil McDonald who is the
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president of the panoramic trust and managing director of
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research of symmetry Partners as well as Glenn Shirley
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who is a principal and head of investor relations
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at quantino Capital Management Glen and
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Phil. Thank you so much for joining us here today. Thanks for having me tone. Thanks Tom.
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It's great.
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be with you, you know at quantino 100% of
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our focus is on taxable investors and
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We're managing portfolios while also seeking
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to generate really consistent and strong tax benefits
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for clients. And that goal is to maximize their
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after-tax wealth to help them keep as much return as possible
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year to year and we couldn't be more thrilled to partner with Symmetry and
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the incredible advisors that you serve. So thanks
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for having us pleasure to have you both. I look forward
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to to the today's dialogue. Sometimes taxes aren't the
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most interesting topic. However, I think that
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there's some very important information that investors should
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be considering in terms of how they invest their assets. And
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so thank you both for joining us. There's a couple
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of different angles. I want to take this conversation, right? And the first
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one I think I want to to go towards is
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Specific investment philosophies, right? So Phil we adhere
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to what we refer to as an evidence-based investment philosophy allowing
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markets to produce the returns that
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are investors are entitled to at the end of the day. So talk
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to us a little bit from a tax standpoint
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the benefits of an evidence-based investment
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philosophy versus
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Paying for Alpha or active
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money management. Mm-hmm. No, you raise a erase.
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Very good point Tom. So our investment philosophy all
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often refer to it as multi-factor investing. It
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involves specific rules quantitative indicators
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that research for
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a very long time has indicated, you know
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might create a premium over time. So following, you know,
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a value and small and momentum and high quality
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High profitability type of strategy you might
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expect to do a little bit better than just a cap weighted
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index over time what you get with
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that again is, you know, rules-based very Diversified. So
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for the most part low turnover right there,
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there are there are some strategies that have
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a little turnover specifically momentum. You probably have a little
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bit higher turnover than a market capitalization way to index but
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generally speaking, you know, these signals are relatively slow
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moving you're very diverseified. Each holding is
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a small percentage of your portfolio.
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So for the most part, you don't have to turn over
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the portfolio very often. You don't have to trade a lot sell a
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lot to reposition into the into the next
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Holdings you would want. I mentioned momentum alone has has a
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higher turnover as an individual strategy. There are
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benefits in putting it together with other factors specifically
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momentum and value work very well
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together because they're negatively correlated and in the same portfolio,
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the the turnover momentum can be
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somewhat counteracted in reduced by having other factors
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in there specifically value. So the
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pairing of factors can help with the tax efficiency of
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the portfolio, right momentum by definition is a high
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turnover strategy. Meaning there's a lot of trading right now this
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this signal is you know, essentially a year
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or so a little less than a year. So you would
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expect and that's the
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standard kind of academic one year price momentum type of
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indicator quantitative rule. So you'd
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expect momentum to lead to changes at about
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Near Horizon your portfolio, which is especially inconvenient
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to with regard to tax
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law because you know, you have the short-term long term type of
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cap gain consideration as well. Sure. So I
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mean we've had a lot of conversations about on this podcast about
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a fishing markets diversification Buy and Hold
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stay the course, but what I'm hearing you say is that just from a
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tax standpoint it almost sounds like it's a convenient byproduct of
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it hearing to a buy an old strategy. That's a
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great way to think about it and you you mentioned relative to
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other strategies. So I want to respond directly to
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that as well. So let's just call, you know,
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multi-factor Diversified investing as a strategy
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and investment philosophy relative to you know,
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kind of old-fashioned active management where a
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manager is picking and choosing you were stocks
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maybe reacting to Market events
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making predictions turning the portfolio over,
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you know, if you know, each position is about 10%
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you know, just selling one position creates a lot
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of turnover.
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Or so typically those actively managed strategies
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that are more concentrated and and require more
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trading are less tax efficient. Lord know
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that absolutely makes sense and Glenn. I know that you share in our
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view on how Capital markets work. Do you
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care to add anything to fills comments? Well, I think tax laws
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harvesting in general is a perfect strategy
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to use evidence based investing
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and I say that because tax laws are
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visiting at its core is you have names in the portfolio that
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are essentially winners. They've appreciated we want
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to hold those continue to hold those names.
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But you're gonna have stocks that have gone down those stocks
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in a really simple example you
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would sell but at that moment when you sell that
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name.
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You have to replace it with another stock.
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So at that moment, that's a perfect time to utilize
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your evidence-based beliefs. If
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you want to tilt the portfolio toward cheaper stocks or
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stocks with better attributes of quality or profitability. If you
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add that in to the stock
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selection of replacing that name via, which
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you've realized that tax loss then we believe you
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can add some nice return Over The Benchmark over
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time.
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So yeah tax loss harvesting and offering after tax improvements
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for clients can type very nicely with
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evidence-based investing.
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Yeah, I think that intentional turnover if you will with
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tasks lost harvesting does open up the door for some creativity
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is what I'm hearing. You say Glenn in order
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of enhancing returns. I mean I've seen in the past people liquidata
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position, they might hold cash for 30
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days or might replace it with an ETF.
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But Glenn what I'm hearing you say is that when that happens, there's
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opportunities to be a little bit more.
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Creative I guess the word when it comes to reinvesting those
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assets special specifically
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through a factor lens, right? That's right. And and
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I would also add Tom that's one advantage of
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the Symmetry platform versus maybe other tax loss
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harvesting options is that you know with with quantino
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involved we can add a modest long short extension
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to a strategy which gives it some
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unique advantages versus long only text less harvesting so
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And long only tax loss harvesting. You'll typically have a risk budget.
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So to speak, you know, there's only so much
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deviation versus The Benchmark the clients willing
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to take
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but with that risk budget
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If you do tilt toward maybe you're
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evidence-based beliefs would maybe value momentum
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you're taking up a little bit of that rich risk budget. So
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by taking up that risk budget, you're reducing the
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expected tax benefit because you're a
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little bit more constrained and tax less harvesting.
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So one disadvantage of perhaps long only text less
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harvesting with the long short extension that long
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short extension itself is the engine for tax benefit
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generation.
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So you can do a lot of created them things in
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the portfolio. You could tilt toward your your factors and
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your in your beliefs, but you're not giving up any expected
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tax benefit.
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If you're if you're employing that long short extension.
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Yeah, I kind of want to hang on that point Glen because we say
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and Phil I think would agree with with you
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that you know, there's no such thing as
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a perfect portfolio, right? Every portfolio is
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As it's trade-offs or is
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a compromise if you will and if you want tax efficiency
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as a main goal Factor investing
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might not be the best way to do it. It's a
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better way of doing it versus just a beta portfolio. But
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what I'm hearing you say Glens you get kind of The Best of Both Worlds
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by utilizing things like margin and
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short positions. Is that correct? I would
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I would agree that I would think the long short extension
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itself introduces more creativity in
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the portfolio because that
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engine of tax benefit generation
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is there it doesn't depend on the underlying portfolio
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for those strong and consistent text benefits. So,
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You have a lot more flexibility to implement the core part
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of that portfolio as you see fit. Sure. No, I think that makes
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a lot of sense. There's a lot of strategies that we're deploying now the 13030
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which you're alluding to Glenn I think is very interesting but filament
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in our experience, we've seen our new
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favorite word ossification, right which essentially means
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that when you own a a basket of
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security is whether it's ETS mutual funds are stocks at some
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point you get to an area
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over time where you can't do anything
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with that portfolio because of embedded gains, right
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and we've seen that over the years with our portfolios.
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Can you comment a little bit on that? Yeah, absolutely and
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The the irony in that
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situation is you should want to get there right because
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you want your portfolio to increase in value. So
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the way you you get to the point of having
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no unrealized losses in your portfolio to
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clip and realize for for tax efficient
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repositioning is your portfolio goes up
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over time and there's some interesting research on this. I think there's broad
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agreement that even in a
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diversified long only portfolio. You probably
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only have a single digit number of years, you know, some of
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it's going to depend on your assumptions and where the market goes and and how
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you've invested and how your tax Lots look but, you know,
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three four five years. Maybe might be the limit
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you have to do.
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Efficient tax less harvesting and that type of portfolio before you
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have to start to really give on the
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risk budget and and we refer to this idea
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of tracking error, which is you know, how different returns essentially
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will look relative to a benchmark and you start
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to to need to accept a lot of a lot of tracking error. If
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you're not willing to accept some realization of gains in
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in managing that portfolio. So all of a sudden, you know
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portfolio you you might be paying somebody to manage and
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do tax laws harvesting on becomes something
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that might look a little bit more like an expensive
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and noisy index. You don't have the ability to
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do many transactions in that so, you know, the 1330 that
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you and Glenn have started to talk about really frees up
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the opportunity to do something with that portfolio sure
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and you know, we talked a lot about direct indexing you
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and I did a podcast of a few episodes ago
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about direct indexing.
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And the more names the more tickers the
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more opportunity you have to harvest losses, but even
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with direct indexing when you hold maybe a hundred or so
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underlying stocks you do get it
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to a period where you you're eventually going to hold a basket
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of very low cost basis with
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high embedded gains securities.
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You had alluded to like we want to see games in our
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portfolio. However, you know, we want our investors to be
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able to keep more in their pockets through through tax efficiency. So clunky.
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1330 strategy, right and in direct indexing
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certainly is a step up from a tax efficiency standpoint.
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It certainly helps describe for us a little bit about
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how that 130 30 works and multiple Market
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environments if you will sure that you
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Tom so, you know at the end of the day if you
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have a hundred dollars of a direct indexing portfolio
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maybe assume that direct indexing portfolio maybe
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has a 50% cost basis or a 60% cost basis
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that tends to be roughly the cost basis where
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that $100 portfolio use the the margin inherent
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in that account just like clients who
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You know borrow us modest amount from their Equity port for
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those from time to time use that same margin capability and then
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we're going to go long thirty dollars in short
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thirty dollars. So we're building a 130/30 strategy
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using the margin borrowing of
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that account. No other cash is required. That's an important part and
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then if you think about that $30 long $30
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short, that's gonna be Diversified across hundreds of stocks.
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Every tax loss harvesting strategy needs breath. You
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need just a lot of stocks to be invested in because you're gonna have winners
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and losers and then you think about that portfolios the
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market goes up as the market goes down. You have
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a little bit of a structural Advantage versus long only long only
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will tend to generate great tax benefits When the market dips
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But it struggles to generate tax benefits When the market Rises and
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you know clients invest in equities because they believe
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the Market's going to rise over time. So that short side of that portfolio is
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really important in the consistency of
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tax benefits over time. So if you have a
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long short portfolio on top of
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your direct indexing account, you're able to recharge
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tax benefits, you know almost immediately after
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you apply that long short extension. We can also use
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that to clean up the portfolios as
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Phil mentioned over time. You're tracking air may rise, you're making
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some deviations versus The Benchmark. So the
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risk in that portfolio is also Rising.
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So if you have an overexposure to say Information Technology,
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those names have done really well over the past
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five to 10 years. We can use the short book the short
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$30 of that portfolio to reduce
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some of that overweight which will help clients reduce
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risk in those accounts as well. So it's a combination of
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generate great text benefits and a consistent way for clients, but also
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to give them a better and less risky Investment Portfolio along
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the way. Thank you gentlemen, that that's very
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insightful for our listeners. Thank you for for listening to
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