A Personal Approach
Whether you’re striving for a secure retirement, looking to preserve your assets for future generations, or seeking investment advice for your business or foundation, you’ve come to the right place. Appleton Wealth Management, a division of Appleton Partners, has a long history of serving high net worth investors, their families, and institutions. Our diverse range of research-based investment capabilities allow us to customize portfolios and asset allocation strategies.
Discretionary Separate Account Management
- Emphasis on individual stocks and bonds aims to reduce costs, enhance transparency, and realize tax efficiency.
- Portfolios are constructed in a customized manner aligned with each client’s financial plan.
- Focus on liquidity is designed to ensure portfolio management flexibility.
Research-Driven Active Management
- A disciplined, proprietary investment process that has been in place for nearly 40 years.
- “Bottom-up”, security-specific research complemented by macroeconomic insight.
- Risk-managed and typically long-term investment time horizon.
Independent RIA
- As an employee-owned firm, our incentives are aligned with those of our clients.
- Advice is solely in your best interests – we do not offer proprietary investment products.
- Bundled fee structure avoids “add-on” expenses.
Balanced Asset Management
Featuring a blend of large-cap stocks with high-grade, intermediate- and short-term bonds, our balanced portfolios seek long-term growth and income while aiming to minimize risk and tax liabilities.
BetaCore: Disciplined Asset Allocation
What is BetaCore Portfolio Construction?
A proprietary core-satellite approach that uses a core of passive and strategic beta exchange-traded funds. BetaCore can serve as a standalone solution or be combined with alpha-seeking equity and bond strategies.
Who Might Benefit From BetaCore?
It is designed to be a comprehensive solution for clients seeking a base of diversified, multi-asset class exposure. BetaCore looks to cost-efficiently obtain a global market return with the potential to add alpha and dampen volatility.
How Do We Use It?
Appleton has developed what we feel are highly efficient asset allocation models and identified ETF strategies to attain desired core exposures. ETF model construction is based on desired characteristics and criteria, including:
- Risk-adjusted return
- Factor exposure
- Cost
- Asset class correlation
- Diversification benefits
Municipal Fixed Income
Our municipal portfolios emphasize high credit quality, liquidity, and carefully-managed interest rate risk by investing primarily in more defensive bonds. The aim of our short-term strategies is to provide principal preservation as well as liquidity and tax-efficient total return. Other tax-exempt strategies invest in securities across the yield curve in accordance with the nature and objectives of each portfolio.
Equity Strategies
We offer several active equity strategies that incorporate quantitative screening, fundamental analysis, and macroeconomic themes in an effort to identify attractive equity investment opportunities. Security selection and portfolio construction are based on the nature and objective of each distinct strategy; desirable stock characteristics often include accelerating profits, strong competitive position, dividend growth, or favorable valuation.
Taxable Fixed Income
Consistent with the goal of preserving capital and long-term growth of principal and income, we seek to maximize returns focusing on yield-curve positioning, sector rotation, and security selection, while also managing appropriate interest rate and credit risk. Taxable fixed income investments may include investment grade corporates, taxable municipals, US Treasuries, TIPs, and US Agency securities.
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The size and structure of our firm facilitates clear, quick, and consistent decision-making. This is an integral element of our research and portfolio management efforts.
Geoffrey D. Chamberlain, CFA
Senior Vice President,
Director of Portfolio Management
