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Asset Builders Corporation is
now proud to present a new service to its investors. In addition to
our current management service, we have introduced an investment timing
and asset allocation service, which is designed for use with mutual funds
and variable annuities. This service will attempt to maximize your
returns by doing the following:
1. Timing
the market and going to cash when necessary.
2.
Allocating assets to sectors that are currently in favor; and
3. Using
hedge funds, which are inversely correlated to the performance of the
corresponding index.1
This service
is thus meant to try and minimize losses and maximize gains2
by being either fully invested or going to cash or hedge funds when
necessary. It will also involve choosing the right investment
sectors3 at appropriate times and right asset classes to
match your risk tolerance level.
If you are
an existing Asset Builders Corporation customer, you are already receiving
this service as stated in our Investment Management Agreement.
However, if you have mutual funds, or variable annuities invested
elsewhere, we have the capability to apply the timing and asset allocation
service to those accounts. You may choose to leave your assets
wherever they are or transfer it to our custodian. In either case
signing a limited power of attorney designating me as your investment
advisor will give me the discretionary power to make the changes.
1 A hedge fund is
a very specialized, volatile, open end investment company that permits the
manager to use a variety of investment techniques usually prohibited in
other types of funds. These techniques include borrowing money,
selling short, and using options. Hedge funds offer investors the
possibility of potentially large gains but have above average risks.
2 Timing the market with personal assets may result in
short or long term capital gains. Assets in a retirement plan or in an
annuity will not incur immediate taxation, neither might you have the
advantage of taking losses.
3The
choice of your fund family or annuity might hinder our asset allocation
policy if the required sector fund or hedge fund is not available in that
family of funds or in that annuity.
4Past performance is not a guarantee of future
performance. Investment return and principal value of an investment will
fluctuate, and an investor’s shares when redeemed may be worth more or
less than their original cost.
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